Prague, Czech Republic
Now for photos of my trip around Eastern Europe! After meeting in Berlin, Prague was the first stop for me and Kim. Such a beautiful, pretty little city (albeit full to bursting with tourists!).
The famous Charles Bridge. It's impossible to cross the bridge without bumping into someone, stepping on peoples' toes, getting in the way of other peoples' photos, having your own photo sessions interrupted, running into street vendors...
The streets of old town.
The main square at night. Apparently, Kakfa's family lived in a house just off of this square.
A statue dedicated to Kafka (the figure sitting atop the headless, handless suit-clad man).
This statue cracked me up. The two figures are peeing into the pond and as an added bonus, their hips swivelled back and forth and their penises moved up and down!
The crazy 70's era sci-fi-esque subway station near our hostel (this is the hostel where the water spontaneously cut out for the day).
Say hello to skulls of some of the black plague victims whose bones ended up decorating the walls of the ossuary in the little village of Kutna Hora. Apparently, the bodies of about 40,000 plauge victims were buried in mass graves near the original Kutna Hora church. When the church was moved to a new location, all of the important graves were dug up and transferred, but the remains of these 40,000 anonymous people were just dumped in a pile outside the main building. They were left there until a local family commissioned a monk to have his way with the bones just piled up in the churchyard and to decorate the interior of the church itself. The result: a super-cool but super-creepy experience.
The centerpiece of the bone church: a chandelier composed of every different type of bone which can be found in the human body.
The coat of arms of the family (I think) that commissioned the decoration of their local church. A little creepy, isn't it?!
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