Czech It Out!

First of all, let me apologise for the stupid pun... but I feel it needed to be done. But I guess that you can tell that we are now in the Czech Republic. We've spent the last two days in Brno (no, that is not a spelling mistake, it is spelt like that. It seems like it's missing a letter somewhere).

Anyways, this has been a decent city. It's nice to be in a city that's not completely overloaded with tourists. In fact, the streets were completely empty yesterday morning. We then went to what must be one of the most morbid and creepy tourist attractions in all of Europe. It was a crypt below a church (the name escapes me), and it was just full of dead bodies on display. It went on to explain that because of the ventilation system down there, that caused the air to keep fresh and dry, bodies here were naturally mumified. Nothing was done to the bodies at all except leave them down there. Some still had teeth and nails....... gross. So we walk in and along different rooms are coffins where the original lids had been removed and glass ones had been put in place. You could get a really close look, and see all the shrivelled skin and bones. The creepiest part of this whole crypt, was one room where a whole bunch of friars were laid to rest. The thing about this is that they were not in any coffins. Just resting on the ground, with a couple of bricks as pillows. There must have been over 20 of them lined up on both sides and the creepiest ones were still wearing some sort of hood over their heads. The room looked like it was right out of horror movie. I can just imagine the main character waking up in the middle of this room and starting to panic (I would too) as the all came alive. Very scary.

Before that we were in Slovakia. We spent a few days around some towns, seeing some cool castles along the way. We also spent some time in a national park, where I got us lost. We were trying to get to a trail that goes up along a stream with waterfalls, but I took a wrong turn, and we had no idea where we were anymore. It took hours of trying to find another way there, before we just decided to retrace our steps and head back. We did eventually get to do that trail (and it was awesome) but it meant almost 10 hours of walking around that day. Our legs were tired after that.

What I loved about Slovakia is just the scenery. We took a train between two towns, and it was simply beautiful. Hills full of trees, cliffs, and castles the whole way. I love it!