Prague was an excellent place to visit. I went there with three of my friends and we stayed in Czech Inn, it's a hostel and a hotel. However, the hostel room we stayed in was just as nice as a nice hotel. The only thing different was the bathroom. Breakfast was included in our travel package we chose and it was probably the best breakfast I have had in Europe so far. We arrived in Prague Friday at around 11am, it ended up being a 13 hour drive from Florence. We then got to do a walking tour of Prague and [View Full Entry]

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Ever since I found out about this "Bone Church" in Kutna Hora, I have been dying to check this place out!! It was definitely one of my favorite places to visit. The Sedlec Ossuary (Bone Church) is a small Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints. The ossuary is estimated to contain the skeletons of between 40,000 and 70,000 people, many of whom have had their bones artistically arranged to form decorations and furnishings for the chapel. During the black plague many people were buried in the cemetary and eventually the cemetary had to be enlarged. After [View Full Entry]

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Tuesday 18th August Some local sightseeing in Beroun After a full day yesterday in Prague we have decided today to stay in Beroun and do some local sightseeing as well as catching up on some washing,banking etc and head back to Prague tomorrow for a walking tour of the sights we still want to see. After a lazy breakfast and sorting out some paperwork we took a walk up the hill behind the town to see three bears that used to feature in a childrens TV series made in the republic that are now housed in an enclosure as they can’t [View Full Entry]

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Sunday 16th August Into the land of the Skoda We have been wracking our brains as to the year we owned a Skoda car.It was our first car after we were married and when it was time to trade up we sold it foir the same amount that we brought itr for!!We did have to replace an axle,a front windscreen and put in a reconditioned motor though in the couple of years we owned it.Leigh might remember trips in the grey Skoda with the engine in the rear but Erin would have been just a baby so it must have been [View Full Entry]

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Today was kind of eventful… It was also the last day of our study tour, so it’s back to Prague for the next few days, then I’m going home. I’m still not sure what I think about that. But back to today! We started the day off by going to another cooperative farm and having a look around. The first unit we went to was the dairy unit. I can’t really comment on its condition since I don’t have a dairy background, but it didn’t seem to be too bad. Some of the students were saying it looked like it [View Full Entry]

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We had our homestays this weekend. Heather and I stayed with Vaclav. We were originally supposed to stay with one of the girls (I honestly could not figure out who she was though), but she got sick. So we could have gone with either Vaclav or Martin, and Nick would have gone with the other. We flipped a coin and ended up with Vaclav. It was interesting to go with him because we ended up going to two (three if you count the train station) different villages because his parents are divorced and live in different places. I think I learned [View Full Entry]

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Kutna Hora: The Bone Church and Silver Mine Memoirs So the original plan for that particular weekend was to go to Cesky Krumlof, but 2 days before I couldn’t get a ticket via bus or train there because of the huge yearly festival that was going on in Krumlof, so I decided then and there at the train station to change my plans and go to Kutna Hora. All I really knew about it was that there was supposed a to be a famous bone church and there was also a silver mine I could tour, so I decided, why not? [View Full Entry]

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Short entry to inform all my Czech friends who wax lyrical about Karlštejn that I have ticked it off my list. Me and my flatmate Anne-Sophie did a day trip today, did the tour, ate ice cream, went for a short wander and came back. It was a nice day, but there's really nothing more to write about. [View Full Entry]

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Sigh, a second year in a row that I miss Canada Day in Ottawa. But that’s ok. Today I enjoyed the ability to sleep in for once (yay for 2 nights in a hotel!) and then I headed out to Kutna Hora, an hour east of Prague. I went to the bus station first to confirm my ticket to Frankfurt for tomorrow night (minor detail considering I have a flight later that day), and then I trekked back to the train station. Again, for an area that sees a considerable amount of tourists, I’m surprised no one I came across understood [View Full Entry]

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Yeah, I've left Prague already. Just for an afternoon, as a rather special friend of mine back home had been waxing lyrical about Kutná Hora (a city 75km south-east of Prague) and how necessary it is that I visit it while I'm here, so I said to her, I will do so as soon as I'm settled... which took a lot shorter time than I thought! And as I'm still very much lonely here, I guess my time for lone travels is now. So off I went to hit the iron road again today. There was an epic tram fail on [View Full Entry]

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