back to work

(written march 6)
...going backa couple of days......was it march 3rd?.....i woke in plenty of time to get breakfast (free!) and catch my train.....actually anita would have been proud.......i went out of my comfort zone........i was leaving really early so i left a note for those guys i almost hung out with the night before to see if they wanted to do something in the evening.......

so, i get on my train, find a seat....ina compartmetn.....six seats, in rows of three facing each other, contained by a sliding door.....for some this may seem mundane....for me, a lover of trains, this was a first .......and exciting!

from the train, i followed the parade of people (seemingly tourists) headed in the same direction as i -- to the ossuary.....the latter is a church....what makes this one particualrly interesting is that this one is decorated in, none other than, human remains......there are pyramids of bones, streamers of bones, a chandelier of bones (quite impresive really) and a coat of arms of bones......every bone in the human body is represented.....this is what happens when a crazy monk gets bored, and consequently creative, after a plague -- hmmmmm, what should we do with these extra bones? artwork sounds good

well, the bone church is what brought me to kutna hora, butthe town was what fascinated me more.......i met up with a spanish couple who happened to have a guidebook.....their english was better than my spanish, but through a lot of signing and pointing we navigated our way to the town centre on foot......it was quite eerie really.......not a soul in sight........and everytime we turned a corner and happened to see someone, they were another tourist......but it was in that way that you knew people lived here.......bizarre.......a beautiful day and noone out and about......