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<\/a>Sedlec Bone Ossuary<\/p><\/div>\n
We get off at the Sedlec Train Stop and walk about a half mile to the Ossuary. Why is this here? It all started in 1278 when the abbot of the Sedlec Monastery returned from Jerusalem with some holy soil. Soon people from everywhere wanted to be buried here and the cemetery was expanded. Then in the 15th century a gothic church was built and its basement was used as an ossuary for the unearthed bones. The bones stayed there until 1870 when Frantisek Rint was appointed to place the bones in order. He did it with some flair. There are over 40,000″bones in the chapel. The chandelier contains at least one of every human bone. There is also a bone coat of arms of the Scwarzenberg family and Rint also signed his name in bones.
\nWe leave the chapel and walk back to the small train stop. We have about a 25 minute wait for the train to the main station in Kutna Hora. It is a hot wait and we find very little shade to sit in. When the scheduled train time gets closer, we stand to wait and a local man waits in the shade across the tracks. This seems like a good idea so we join him. We talk a little through sign language and his limited English. I tell him his English is much better than my Czech and rattle off the few words I have learned. When I say dobre den, he tells me how to say good morning, afternoon, and night. I remember Dobre ranu is good morning.
\nThe train comes, we have to wave it down, and then we all get on. When we get off after the 5 minute ride, the man says St Barbara, and follow me. Then he points and says we must go right up ahead. As we approach the corner where we must go right, he says my friend is here, speaks English. We are introduced to his friend who I tell that his friend is a very nice man. He says, I know, I have known him a very long time. It was a fun little meeting.
\nWe walk uphill in the heat along a curvy road and then some more medieval type roads with cobblestones and stone walls. We pass St James Church which is undergoing a large renovation.<\/p>\n
<\/a>St Barbara and Vineyardk<\/p><\/div>\n
There is a nice viewpoint here of St Barbara and its vineyard. Before we go to St Barbara, we stop at the Hradek Silver Mine where we were hoping to take a tour. The covered courtyard tunnel is cool and has benches. Carol waits here with our things while I go inside. The only English tour is at 1500 and it is 1045. The next tour in Czech is at 1215 and she says there are English text in the rooms. The tour itself lasts an hour and a half. We talk it over and decide we would rather spend time with Debbie and Jiri than hang around here. We call Debbie and tell her that we are running early and should be done in around 45 minutes. We will wait for her at the front of St Barbara’s Church. She tells us that we should peek inside St Barbara’s before we buy our tickets. When we get there, that is what we do. We have seen many churches on this trip as we like going in them and this one is nice inside but probably does not warrant the price they are charging. We decide to save our money and find a nice bench nearby in the shade.
\nThe outside of the church is gothic and has two buttresses.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Front of St Barbara<\/p><\/div>\n
First Carol walks around, scouts the area, and finds our meeting point. Then I walk around and check out the exterior of the church. It has many gothic nuances which includes several gargoyle and people like stone drains up above. They are very interesting to me. While sitting we watch a young boy and his father walking around. The boy smiles at us and then runs back to his father. We think the boy will keep him busy and very active. Before we know it, it is time for us to move to ur meeting spot. We only wait there a few minutes before Debbie pulls up. She has a Rav 4 just like us.
\nThe drive to Jevany where they live takes us through rolling hills of farmland and a small town or two. She drives us through the small town of Jevany where only 500 people live. Then on to their home we go. It is a beautiful ranch style home with a nice open floor plan. The interior decorating is astonishing to us of the still a lot of bare walls clan. Not to be outdone by the Croatians, Debbie gets us two beers. St Bernard beer which is very good and one that we tried yesterday in Praha. This is more of a Pilsner and we had tried both a dark and light yesterday at the hotel. It is an excellent Czech beer that now has a partnership with Duvel Moortgat from Belgium. I wonder if many Czechs know this.<\/p>\n