A friend once described Prague to me as "Disneyland with Booze". I now know what he means. Disneyland - a fairytale-like, dreamy Eden of castles, cobbles and costumes. Booze - beer. Lots. Cheap. Good. I've been wandering the alleys and squares for a couple of days, still in that buzz of wonder at how such a fantastic place can exist. 
Architecture, food, music, beauty all crammed into one tiny, quality city. The photos I'll paste will say it better than I can now.I also visited Kostinice, an hour's trainride away, the famed Bone Church. With more imagination even than the Paris Catacombs, the bones of 40,000 dead souls are arranged into a Ghoulish display to the Glory of Mortality. A huge chandelier containing skulls, clavicles, femurs, cochleas and bones from every part of the skeleton adorns the ceiling. Stacks of carefully arranged skeletal artifacts grow dusty in four large crypts. A
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of arms of the regions, made entirely out of human bones, adorns a wall. Floral displays, words and other macabre decorations flank a Crucified Christ at the main altar. Beautiful and terrible at the same time. If I ever thought I was going to live forever, I relent! Ok I get it! One day I'll be dead too! I believe you already!Now I'm back in the Capital having dined in Restaurant Metamorphose to typical Czech
sauerkraut, roast duck and stuffing. My choices to visit tomorrow include:Museum of Medieval Torture Instruments
Sex Machine Museum
Puppet and chocolate bazaar
Gothic Bridge and Castle
Pub
On to Budapest in a couple of days.
1 comment:
Go the the puppet and chocolate bazaar - there is nothing like that in Wellington! B
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