The Birthday & The Bone Church....

Wayne's 39th birthday was today and we both totally forgot that fact until we were on our way to our various destinations!  Pretty pitiful.....Today, Sunday, was beautiful with blue skies and warmish temps.  The countryside east of Prague is mostly rolling hills and farm country.  Spring is here and trees have new leaves, fields are green, and bushes are blooming.  Very picturesque and lovely.

First destination...Kutna Hora.  We were very curious about Kutna Hora and its rather macabre fame resulting from an old Catholic ossuary in which more than 40,000 human bones were arranged in creative designs, pyramids and other, the reason for which you could find by googling it.  It was grizzly in a way, but very interesting.  There is also a beautiful church nearby that is worth a look.

After the "bones", we headed for Pelc, a little town further east in the Czech Republic.  It's fame, well deserved, is its walled old town with a beautiful village square and well preserved pastel buildings lining both sides. 

We made the long drive back to Prague and braved the subway system to go to the Old Town for dinner at a traditional Czech restaurant.  My directional disfunction got us off on the wrong street for our trip to find the subway station, but we finally got to it and then managed pretty well.

 Tomorrow we leave Prague and travel to Plzen, the home of the Pilsner Urquell Brewery.  More after our next landing...