Beers and Bones

Over Christmas, we went to Prague for about 5 days. It was a pretty good christmas, we did a few tours in and around Prague. The hotel where we stayed was directly opposite a 'caberet' bar, which I think is a pretty popular place during warmer months with English stag parties! On Christmas day we went to a bizzare chapel about 70km east of Prague called Sedlec (http://www.kostnice.cz/). In there are the bones of around 40,000 people! It was a pretty strange place to be in and many of the other tourists who were there were having a great time posing next to a chandelier made of human bones! The tour guide however seemed to have the willies about the place and he soon rounded us all up within about 10 minutes! He only poked his head in the door to pay the entrance fee and then ran back out to the car to wait.

After a couple more days drinking Czech beer (which is fantastic and cheap), sampling Absinth (nasty), and looking at old churches and castles, we spent our last day in Czech on a tour of Terezin. Terezin is an old fortress which was used as a concentration camp in WWII. It was a pretty sobering experience and was well worth it. The picture above is a gate which has 'Arbeit Macht Frei' or 'Work will make you free' painted above it inside Terezin.

On the last day in Prague it was snowing pretty heavily all day. On the train on the way to the airport there was a lot of pushing and shoving to get on the train! After all that there was no hurry as we were delayed by 3 and 1/2 hours anyway! The plane even had to get de-iced! (not anything exciting for Europeans, but being Aussie it was a first!)