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Kutná Hora Day Trip (Pt. 4 – Dinner)

stellar magnet — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:20:47 +0000

At last, we got some dinner. We went to this hotel called U Hrnčiře that has a restaurant serving meat dishes and a large variety of vegetarian dishes. I read about it on WikiTravel, and I’m glad I had my meal here! I got some amazing soy goulash and potato pancakes. Both were quite spicy and very fresh looking and tasting. Petr ordered some pork but he ordered speaking (poor) czech and I don’t think the waiter understood. Actually when Petr ordered I could sense the waiter didn’t think he ordered an entree, and I told Petr but he said that no he got it. I got my food and then like 20 minutes pass and his pork hasn’t come yet, but he got his salad. I tell Petr to ask the waiter what’s up — but he’s being stubborn and not listening to me! Finally the waiter comes back again and he asks and yeah, there was never any pork ordered. So we waited another 20 minutes and it finally came. As soon as he finished we rushed out, hoping we’d catch a cab somewhere in this dead town that would take us to the train station to catch the next train (if we walked, we would have missed it). Luckily we found one!

Kutná Hora Day Trip (Pt. 3 – The City)

stellar magnet — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:10:55 +0000

From the cathedral we walked a few kilometers to the center of town in search of food. The cute pinkish buildings complimented the sky quite well. There weren’t many (any?) people around at all.

(Church of St. Barbara is to the right)

Kutná Hora Day Trip (Pt. 2 – Cathedral)

stellar magnet — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:05:39 +0000

After the bone church I visited the Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec. Petr passed. Whenever I bought my ticket for the bone church I bought one that got admission to both places since it seemed cheap. It was okay I guess — I’m not much of a person for visiting cathedrals unless they are really extravagant. The Church of St. Barbara on the other end of town seemed much nicer from the outside and I would have rather visited that one than this, but it was getting late (like closing time) and at this point I didn’t even know where the other church was.

Kutná Hora Day Trip (Pt. 1 – Bone Church)

stellar magnet — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:00:23 +0000

Took the train from Prague to Kutná Hora, with Petr. It was a short ride (about an hour). A very small town, not many people around at all. The main reason for coming to Kutná Hora was to visit the bone church or Sedlic Ossuary. Right after getting off the train we walked there (it’s pretty close to the train station). The chandelier was my favorite, can’t say I will ever see something like that again in my life.