Bone Church of Kutna Hora
Last year Jan, we were in Prague (Capital of Czech Republic). On a typical Friday evening when we were making plans on what to do on this weekend (Prague not so big city, all the see-able places are covered pretty soon). There were not many suggestions coming over besides sitting in hotel room drinking beer and roaming around city center in the evening that too if there is a stop to snow fall. Our SPOC from client side, a jolly good fellow came to our rescue. Though there was some problem in the communication as we don’t know a word of Czech and he is tight at English, but since we hit it well with this guy we could make up for all the missed words or expressions.
He told us about a church in a small town called Kutna Hora called Kostnice (Church of bones) which is about 2 hrs journey from Prague by train. We decided to take this journey. I along with Ashutosh, Piyush, Arif and Soumen (dada) were all set to go to Kutna Hora. It was to be a day long trip only so it did not take much of to get ready besides keeping some money and making up our mind.
I got up early on Saturday and opened curtains for morning dose of sutta and there was a big disappointment. A heavy snow fall was visible and everything was so white. We waited till noon and than gave up all the time drinking and smoking and waiting for snow fall to stop and allowing us to venture out. Snow fall went on till early evening, so we thought let’s see what is in store on Sunday.
Sunday was perfect, no sunshine but no snow either. We started out by taking the ?eské dráhy (Czech Railways) train from Prague station to Kutna Hora.
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