Prague: Sun and Bones

Prague gave us our first real warm weather of the trip. Finally we could wear the shorts and dresses we had been lugging around for the past two months.

We had our first gelati of the season, and our first brush with sunburn.

In a singlet and shorts! And it's the gelati that's frozen and not me!

In a dress in Prague. In a dress? What is this madness?!

But this weather was short lived, as the next day it was raining and cold again. Noooooo!

For our last day in Prague we took a tour to Kutná Hora, where there is a chapel entirely decorated with human bone.

There were bones everywhere. A coat of arms made from arms, walls and towers made from skulls, and even a bone chandelier.

The chapel wasn’t what I was expecting, and I’m not entirely sure I liked it. Our tour guide assured us that this was a respectable resting place; that the people whose remains lined the chapel saw it as an honourable place. But I still felt weird about it.

Our guide took us to some other surrounding churches and statues in Kutná Hora, however we found it to be a pretty lack-lustre tour. Unless you were dying to see the bone chapel, it probably wasn’t worth the 600 crowns (around $30), or the day we could have spent further exploring Prague.

Overall, Prague was one of our favourite cities and I would recommend everyone visit. It was relatively easy to get around (unless you had been on a pub crawl), it was extremely cheap (unless you were on a pub crawl) and it was just generally beautiful (even if you were on a pub crawl).

Cheers Prague, thanks for having us

I would definitely love to come back to Prague, and I think it will hold a special place in each of our hearts.

Yours in humerus,

Nikki