The bone church, Tjeck republic and home……

We´re on the ferry back home now.

We left Croatia and has done a fair amount of bike riding each day. Arrived to Kutna Hora east of Prague on sunday afternoon/early evening and the reason for us being in Kutna Hora, the bone church, had just closed for the day. So we found a hotel, had dinner and looked at the city before hitting the sack.

Visited the bone church rather early monday morning and we got in just before a buss load of chineese tourists arrived. Interesting place. Don´t remember the story completely but someone took sacred soil from Palestine to the church many hundred of years ago and lots of people wanted to get buried there because of this. And when the grave yard could´t fit more graves people started to stack up bones from dead people inside the church instead. And later these bones where organized by people working at the church and now it pretty much look like they´ve created christmas decorations from human bones and skulls. Odd but interesting place. I´ll post a link to the church later so you can read the history yourselfs. I don´t remember exactly…… Some pics……:

Ok. There is a web link on this sign. www.kostnice.cz

A pic from the grave yard.

The first thing you see when entering the church.

And to the right…..

I don´t know how many people there is in this pic but it must be quite a few.

Howdy.

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I call him “George”.

Tina stayed in the church and took some more pics while I walked out to our bikes. 60 over excited chineese tourists arrived within minutes later after they´ve visited the church and they started to take pictures of themselves next to the bikes and quite many also tried to sit on Tinas bike so that their fellows could take pictures of them on the bike. I got scared that they might tip the bike over so I had to tell quite many of them to please leave the bikes alone but that didn´t do much good since not many of them understood any english. They instead surrounded me and took their pictures with me in it… Total chaos. And all of a sudden their tour leader blew in a whistle and they all got on their bus and left within seconds later. And there I stood puzzled and confused…..

Tina arrived and we soon left to head north into Poland. Tina forgot to take off the disk lock from her rear wheel before starting her engine. I saw what was about to happened just when she was about to drive off so I yelled at her and she turned the engine off and unlocked the disk lock. Really easy to forget a thing like this but the result from a mistake like this can be anything from hurtful to expensive. I hardly ever lock my bike when going into museums or restaurants. I tend to leave my bike jacket, helmet and everything else on the bike and I often even forget to take the ignition key from the bike too so my bike is really easy to steal. I´m such a “knickedick”…… 😉

Tina communicating with bulls……

Tina taking a nap at the ferry port in Gdansk.

The food on the ferry was indeed horrible. This is not really a passenger ship but more like a cargo ship that also takes a limited number of passengers. I guess they are only used to feeding polish truck drivers and they seem more interested in beer than in food. There is a regular passenger/car ship too that goes between Nynäshamn south of Stockholm to Gdansk but it didn´t fit our schedule. So we opted for drunk truck drivers as travel companions and really horrible food instead of traveling some more days. We were on the cargo ship on our way to Poland when we started our trip too so we knew that the food was no good. “No good” is a understatement. The food was horrible.

Will most likely sum the whole trip in one last post in a couple of days. Lots of work and other things ahead. Hectic fall and winter. More within a couple of days. Thanks for reading.

//Jan