Kutna Hora, Hluboka nad Vltavou, Ceske Budejovice, and other places I can't pronounce.

Thea and I (and sometimes Rudi!) have taken a few trips to some small Czech towns in the past couple weeks. First, we went to Kutna Hora, a little town about an hour outside of Prague. Kutna Hora is famous for its bone church. Buses of tourists stop here, but we were lucky enough to get there pretty early and beat the crowds. The church is seriously morbid and a little weird really, but it was cool to see nonetheless.


Apparently this chandelier is made from every bone in the human body.


The Schwarzenbergs Crest made out of bones.



We also saw the very beautiful, St. Barbara's Cathedral and had delicious lunch, and some Czech wine!











Our next stop was Hluboka and Vltavou, don't even ask me how to say it, I've given up on learning anything other than hello, please, thank you, and you're welcome in Czech. But, it was this beautiful little town with a fairytale castle sitting at the top of the hill. We took a train and spent the day exploring this massive castle that was once home to the Schwarzenbergs, a royal Czech family. We took pictures, climbed the tower, took a tour, and had some ice cream.




Pretending to be royalty :)





















After that, in a nearby town called Ceske Budejovice is a huge Czech brewery called Budweiser Budvar (the original Budweiser if you ask me, but that's debatable). So we took a tour, and got to see how the beer is made and got to sample some pivo too. It was really cool for me, since I didn't know that much about the brewery process to learn what goes on, but Thea and Rudi are brewmasters so they were teaching me too. It so cool to me that beer is such a huge part of the culture here. I love it!