Day 15 - Prague

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I was up relatively early and walked to the Old Town Square to meet my tour group. Today I went to Kutna Hora; which is a smaller town to the east of Prague and is mainly known for its history of silver production. It also has this amazing chapel that is full of bones and skeletons that have been used to create crazy designs like goblets, pictures, massive pyramids, a coat of arms, a chandelier, and all manner of decorations. It was definitely a site to behold, slightly morbid – this made the more so due to all the people clambering to take their photos with the skulls and bones – but also just awe inspiring to see the ingenuity that people have used to create these designs. Many of the bones belonged to people who died during the plague and the reason the bone structures were originally constructed was due to the excess of bodies that the cemetery was inundated with at this time. After that we caught a taxi to St Barbara’s Church and had a look around before going and getting some lunch. I had some Beef Goulash Soup in a bread bowl. It was delicious. After this it was time to head back to the train station for our return journey to Prague. To do this we all had to load onto the tram, which took us to the station. The heat inside the tram was almost unbearable. I was so pleased when we arrived at the station. The 1hour return journey was not at all pleasant; by the time we arrived back in Prague I was ready just to have a rest somewhere with a cool breeze. It was an amazing day though and definitely something I would recommend. Some highlight tour guide jokes from today were:

- When talking about a statue of a miner in St Barbara’s Church “This man had something in common with you two, do you know what that is?” he asked pointing to the 2 children of the group. ‘He was a miner (minor) too.”

- They were brothers and they were monks… so they were also brothers.

- His name was John Paul, which he said was due to his father’s German heritage, and also due to the fact that his mother loved the Beatles.

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