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• A peek at Písek

  Blog: The Journeys of Captain Oddsocks - 9 November 2009

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• A trip to Třeboň

  Blog: The Journeys of Captain Oddsocks - 27 October 2009

  If you ask Czech people about visiting Třeboň often the first two things they will mention will be the local fishponds and that it's a spa town. The carp from the nearby ponds are certainly a local specialty worth trying but the spa is of no use to casual visitors. Treatments have to be booked weeks in advance, there's nothing interesting about the architecture and the spa patients add little if anything to the atmosphere and public life of the town.

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• The Church of Bones – Sedlec Ossuary

  Blog: Brilliant Tips Travel Blog - 15 October 2009

  Located in Kutna Hora, a town in the Bohemia region of the Czech Republic just a short train ride away from Prague, is the Sedlec Ossuary (Kostnice Sedlec); also known as the Church of Bones. The small chapel was constructed in 1511 to house the bones from abolished graves and is estimated to contain the skeletons of between 40,000 and 70,000 people. Many of the bones have been artistically arranged to form decorations and furnishings for the chapel. Arranged by Frantisek Rint in 1870, highlights include an enormous chandelier which includes ...

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