Archive for October, 2003

Budapest

Coming into Hungary someone tried to steal our bags again. Its just routine in eastern Europe. Someone walks into your train car while you’re asleep and scans your stuff. Our stuff was all secured to us, so it wasn’t really an issue. You notice them and they leave. One guy lamely asked for a light [...]

Bone Home

There’s this ossuary in the town of Kutna Hora, an hour outside of Praha. Someone sprinkled some earth from Galalie over the ground of this cemetery, so every moneyed person from all over Bohemia started planting themselves there when they died. The cemetery eroded and overflowed so they moved the bones to this new ossuary. [...]

Dobri Den

Coming into Prague was a roller-coaster of good and bad impressions for us. We came into the Czech Republic via train passing through some nice mountainous territory and seriously run down villages. The train station on the north side of Prague was still a communist era affair, very unmaintained. Mandy followed signs to the ladies [...]

The Old World

The reason I started traveling was to learn about different ways of living. I went to Europe to go to the grocer, drink at cafes, navigate across the cities and use the light-switches. Going to museums and monuments was just as much a way for us to turn the doorknobs as anything else. A buddy [...]