Ok, now where was I? Ah, right. The bone chapel. Instead of being some spooky, surreal creation, it was just a very creative decorating job which happened to have been done with bones. The biggest downside of the place was the smell, since the whole place had a dusty, musty old bone smell, perfectly understandable if you consider that most of the bones are several centuries old.
After seeing the ossuary I wandered into town and found a very large, very impressive cathedral. it cost an extra 30 Kč to get in though, so I just snapped a couple of pictures from the ticket counter and left. I wandered around a bit after that and came to realiye what a large place Kutná Hora is. It's just mostly small buildings spreading out in every direction, so it doesn't seem that large from a point outside the city, like the train station.
After seeing Kutná Hora I headed east, to Ostrava. The train from Kolín, where I had to change trains, was packed. It was standing room only in second class, and jokes about India were going around the train.
I ended up between two cars with a couple of Czech guys from a town near Prague. As soon as they found out I was American they wanted to talk non-stop, so for the second half of that train ride I was trying to decipher Czechlish grammar. They also wanted to share their alcohol, which they had a lot of. In an hour the three of us emptied half a bottle of slivovice and a bottle of Kofola mixed with some nasty stuff they insisted was 98% alcohol. That stuff smelled and tasted like rubbing alcohol, so I believed them. I don't remember what they called it though.
When I got off in Ostrava, my friend Bohdan, another MUMEr, took me to some hostel-esque place that costs only 100 Kč per night, or about $6 or $7. We then went out with a couple of his friends and ate some ridiculously cheap, very tasty Czech food and then ended up at a pub that turned out to be lots of fun.
Now I'm waiting for Bohdan to turn back up so that I can pay him the 400 Kč or so I owe him from yesterday and then he can point me in the direction of the train station. After that, I'm off to Budapest. I think. Wherever I end up though, I'm sure to write it down.
