Kutn\u00e1 Hora<\/a>, about an hour from Praha (Prague to the Yanks). The big tourist draws in Kutn\u00e1 Hora are the silver mines and the ossuary. We skipped the mines, but did take in the ossuary. To me, this collection of artwork built from skeletal remains, while quite fantastic, is more of an oddity than anything else. On the other hand, the town of Kutn\u00e1 Hora is a sort of mini-Prague and probably rivals it for inherent beauty and number and magnificence of its cathedrals.<\/p>\nFor the evening, we returned to Praha and went in search of U zlat\u00e9ho tygra (Golden Tiger). This pub was once the favorite watering hole of V\u00e1clav Havel and one of his mentors, writer Bohumil Hrabal. Particularly smoky, this is a one-stop education in Czech pub culture. Pilsner Urquell is the house brew. Havel and former U.S. president Bill Clinton joined Hrabal for a traditional Czech pub evening here during Clinton’s visit in 1994. We joined four German gents at a table directly below a photo of the aforementioned dignitaries and quickly noticed \u2018tab\u2019, a small slip of paper used by the waiters in these pubs to keep track of your purchase had somewhere over fifty dashes on it. The Germans explained their numbers had been larger earlier in the evening, but that\u2019s still a lot of pivo. We bailed out at 4 marks, they were approaching sixty.<\/p>\n
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Sunday, May 22, 2011 Keeping on top of this blogging stuff is hard. Other than for sleeping, we just haven\u2019t spent a lot of time in the hotel rooms Laurel so painstakingly researched. Today, however, has been a departure. Up after 7:30 and then down to breakfast we then spent a few hours doing admin\/booking\/computer …<\/p>\n
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