Day 13: Kutna Hora

This morning I hopped a train to visit Kutna Hora for the day. The highlight clearly is the ossuary or bone church. It's an old chapel that's been decorated with the bones from 40,000 skeletons that were unearthed when a nearby cemetary was dug up. It's supremely creepy but at the same time kind of cool looking. Like a real-life Haunted mansion, almost. Other than that, I walked around Kutna Hora for a bit and checked out the cathedral, and then relaxed with a nice, cold Budweiser. The real Budweiser from Budvar, not that crap from St. Louis.

On the way back my train was delayed by 15 minutes, which meant that we missed the connecting train in Kolin. That spiralled into a whole thing where a small group of us where trying to figure out which train we could catch back to Prague and how long it would take. Could we take the 18:04 Eurocity, or did our cheap tickets not let us on that? Was the slower train leaving at 18:01 going to be quicker than the fast train leaving at 18:04, seeing as it's now 18:05 and the slow train's here but the fast one's not?

Incidentally, on the train I wound up sharing a compartment with a motley crew of Aussies, Americans and Canadians, and it turns out the Canadians were from North Van. In fact, one of them lives just across the highway from me. Small world.

Tomorrow, probably another day trip out to Plzen, and then on Saturday Zafeer, Dorian, and I pick up our rental car and drive down to Cesky Krumlov.