Jemnice – a small town in the Czech Republic

I had a mission of my own on this trip and that was to visit my “American familys” ancestors birth places and see what they looked like. Unfortunately I could only find out about one of them but luckily it was pretty much on our way to Kutna Hora and the Bone Church on our way up north. It did turn out to be a pretty time consuming detour though – possibly the GPS lead us on to the small and winding roads a little too early so it took a lot more than the extra 1 hour we were told by the stupid little navigator. But looking on the map it pretty much looked like a shortcut! Oh well, luckily the roads were really nice and fun to ride and the landscape was very nice. And the sun was of course shining!.
Below are a bunch of pictures of the surroundings of Jemnice – as the little town is called – and of course of the square in the middle of the place which naturally is all built up around a neat little church. Very nice looking and tidy place but the first glance of the place when entering Jemnice I got a little puzzled of what I saw – a junk yard!

Pretty flat landscape in the whole area

First time we saw a cross like this by the road

Welcome to Jemnice huh!? Hmmm

Approaching the town center.

Are there no people living here?

Nice and tidy though.

It was sunday just after lunch so I guess that’s why the shops were closed but there were no people in the church either.

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It didn’t take long to finish the Jemnice square tour so we went for some lunch instead! Jan seemed to have ordered potato croquettes but it did say pineapple and chicken on the menu too. We think. The lady in the restaurant barely spoke any english at all and the menu was hard to understand.

And I got a healthy fish and no potatoes 🙂 Cant believe how cheap the food was here. Both our courses with drinks did cost about the same as one big beer at a fancy restaurant in Stockholm! And it was delicious too!

The church on top of the hill.

Jemnice outskirts

Time to continue the trip.

A neighboring village on our way towards Kutna Hora.

So my curiosity got satisfied! I’m glad we made this detour even though Jan didn’t seem too excited at first which is understandable since he didn’t have any connection to the place at all. Anyway, I hope my friends “over there” will find it nice to see what the place looks like.