U Ruze Hotel
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I'm Bone to be Wild!
... digging up old bones, and legend has it that some blind monk??! Started arranging them into geometric shapes... but then later on František Rint was commissioned to decorate the inside of the church. There are chandeliers, coat of Arms, and pillars all made from human bones.. It's in some ways beautiful.. but when you think about it.. pretty disgusting!!!
However it was great to go and visit, because when else in my life am I ...
Kutna Hora
... eat and then set out for St. Barbara's Cathedral which was absolutely beautiful. There were statues all along the road leading to the cathedral, and the cathedral itself was amazing. It almost looks like a castle with three huge peaks on the roof. Inside is just as beautiful with stained glass all around the outside. The only unfortunate thing is that we were rushing to make our train (which only departs every two hours) so we were really rushing. And the ...
A QUIET LITTLE PLACE
... 220 CC. I have no more Czech coins!
Peter gave us a chat about the next few days: two Polish brothers will be picking us up, one very talkative and the other not. We will stop for a photo op of the former border post at Poland and have to order our lunch in Polish in advance. There will be one other morning stop for getting Polish currency before lunch.
The afternoon's detour will be to go to Auschwitz I, a concentration camp, and then Auschwitz II, or ...
A bone to pick...
... beef goulash and fried cheese. We managed to scarf all this down in about fifteen minutes since we were on a schedule, then grabbed our bus to the Santa Barbara Cathedral. The Cathedral, while gothic, looked much more pristine than most we had seen. The outside was clean and not under scaffolding!
After touring the interior of the church Andrew bought some wine from a stand outside we ...
Hangover, prague ed.
... of the car for transportation, we had also heard that there was a very strange church in the town that we had to visit, so visit we did.
When we finally got into town, we found ourselves a map at the tourist info and then found the church we had been looking for. It is locally known as the Ossuary, but more widely known as the Church of Bones. This is because when the stone carver had been building the church he had found a burial ground with 4,000 bodies in it underneath ...
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- Restaurant
- Room service
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Free parking
- Pets allowed