Brasov, Romania

We stayed in Brasov for one week, at the end of our train pass. Leaving Prague at 15:30, we did a first train to Budapest and then changed for a night train to Brasov. We arrived at 14:30 the next day. We took a few days to relax as we were exhausted. It is really hard to move like this all the time. We stayed inside the flat we rented for a few days without doing anything else than reading, researching for future destinations and watching some TV shows. On one of the last day there, we hiked Mount Tampa, up to the Brasov sign, walked in the old city and saw the narrowest street of Europe. It felt really good to be in the same city for more than 2 days.

View of Romania from the train

Some sunflowers

Some more...

First class private 2 beds cabin

Modern Romanian transportation waiting for the train to go by

 

Almost 400 meters above the city

The sign

Brasov

View from mount Tampa

Brasov sign view from the town

This is apparently the narrowest street of Europe

Map of the train route so far, at the end of the 2 months train pass.

Mountains of Transylvania

 

Sedlec Ossuary, Czech Republic

Sedlec Ossuary is a small Roman Catholic church in the town of Kutna Hora, Czech Republic. It is decorated with human bones and skulls. It contains the bones of between 40,000 and 70,000 people. They made a huge chandelier, a coat of arms and a lot of decorations on the walls. There are also 4 piles, one in each corner, of bones and skulls. They had to unearth mass graves for the building of a Gothic church in the 15th century and the lower level was built to be used as an ossuary to store those extra bones.

 

One of the neatly organized pile of bones

Huge Chandelier containing at least one of every bone in the human body

Schwardzenberg coat of arms

Outside of the Gothic Church

Prague, Czech Republic

Prague was a nice city. It also seems like it's a big party destination for students. We stayed in a big hostel, where everybody seemed to be there to go party all night. We met quite a few nice people and enjoyed our visit. It was a very nice stop even if we were not in a party mood. It has beautiful architecture and a few older cobblestone streets. Prague was worth seeing but after so many other nice European cities it wasn't that different.

Charles Bridge

David Cerny's work

Before I die board

Dancing House by Frank Gehry

Charles Bridge

Astronomical Clock

Valdstejnska Zahrada Park

Our new big friend :)