Praha
Prague was fantastic! As I mentioned before, it's one of the most picturesque places I've ever seen in the world. It's a typical conception of classic Europe. The time I spent in Prague was full of castles, churches and cobblestone.
The trip to the countryside was amazing, we went bicycling to 2 different castles and took in the pastoral landscapes. I'll try to get pictures online as soon as I can.
One of the more interesting things we did involved another daytrip. We took a train to a small town called Kutna Hora an hour outside of Prague. In KH there's a church that decorated entirely with human bones. It was, not suprisingly, interesting and creepy. There are piles of bones, a bone chandelier, a crest of the local patron and skulls everywhere. More interesting than the bones, though, was the sheer numbers of gawkers that make the trip just to see the spectacle. Edgar Allen Poe once said that mankind is preverse by nature, and now I really understand what he meant. We make trips to see rivers, mountains, cathedrals and museums, but we can't resist the macabre peepshows along the way. The ossuary in Kutna Hora is no exception, neither are things like the high school that was the headquarters of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, the demonstrations of tiger traps in the Cu Chi Tunnels in Vietnam or the Civil War reenactments in the US for that matter. What's next, the site of the Rawandan massacres?
It's a strange world we live in, but I'm determined to see as much of it as possible.
Love,
jc
The trip to the countryside was amazing, we went bicycling to 2 different castles and took in the pastoral landscapes. I'll try to get pictures online as soon as I can.
One of the more interesting things we did involved another daytrip. We took a train to a small town called Kutna Hora an hour outside of Prague. In KH there's a church that decorated entirely with human bones. It was, not suprisingly, interesting and creepy. There are piles of bones, a bone chandelier, a crest of the local patron and skulls everywhere. More interesting than the bones, though, was the sheer numbers of gawkers that make the trip just to see the spectacle. Edgar Allen Poe once said that mankind is preverse by nature, and now I really understand what he meant. We make trips to see rivers, mountains, cathedrals and museums, but we can't resist the macabre peepshows along the way. The ossuary in Kutna Hora is no exception, neither are things like the high school that was the headquarters of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, the demonstrations of tiger traps in the Cu Chi Tunnels in Vietnam or the Civil War reenactments in the US for that matter. What's next, the site of the Rawandan massacres?
It's a strange world we live in, but I'm determined to see as much of it as possible.
Love,
jc
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