Showing posts with label Czech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Czech. Show all posts

Friday, August 7, 2009

Kutna Hora and the Bone Church

For my last day in Prague I headed to the town of Kutna Hora to visit a "Bone Church". The church might be one of the most macabre sights that I have ever laid eyes on because it contains and estimated 40,000 skeletons inside of it and most have been arranged as decor in some way.

Here is a panoramic shot of this guy at the train station (still learning my camera)


Here is the inside of the church. Note the chandelier and pretty much everything else in the room other than me.


There are some interesting things I could say about this but I will just let it go. Apparently this church was once dusted with dirt collected from Golgotha.


Do you know any of these guys?


After an interesting day I made my way back to the train station to call it a night and prepare for my trip to Berlin.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Prague

After being in Poland I have found my way back to Prague but sadly haven't got to post nearly enough due to no wifi at the hostel so right now I have found a cable from the wall to post for a sec.

The city of Prague is one of my first real conquests in life (2003 I think) but I lost all the photos so I have taken a few more this time around.

Here I am up at the castle overlooking the city.


This is the famous Charles Bridge in town.

From across the Charles bridge though the castle really is a sight to be seen. I am hoping to get the chance to post more on here but I am staying about 3 days everywhere so I might have to just collage it all into a video in a couple of days.

Off to Berlin, Germany tomorrow... wish me luck

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Off to Eastern Europe

Tomorrow I will finalize my move from Birmingham by flying to Prague in the Czech Republic but I have no plans on staying there long.

I plan to leave the city the same day to head up to Wroclaw, Poland for a few days before returning to Prague. That said, my day looks something like this (if all goes well)

8am Wake up
10:30am Head to airport
12:50pm Fly to Prague
4pm Arrive in Prague (2 hour time difference)
5pm make it to the Prague train station
6pm Catch a train from Prague
8pm Arrive in Nachod (Border Town)
8:30 catch a bus across border to Poland
9:30pm - 10am Hope that there is a connection sometime in this range for me to make it from Kudowa Zdroj up to Wroclaw
Meet the person from the first couch I am surfing at 2pm in the middle of town.

I don't speak the language, I haven't allotted time to sleep, I am trying to do it all on the cheap, and I am making it up as I go. I LOVE TRAVEL