October 2013 and June 2014
On weekdays in the morning towns are usually empty - people work.
Getting to the foreigner police is not easy for an inexperienced tourist - from Podebrady first we go to Kolin, then to the main station of Kutna Hora, then on a cool two-car yellow train we ride shortly to the station "Kutná Hora - Město". Then about 10 minutes on foot uphill - and we're at the police.
I started photographing only after getting the biometric card - didn't get distracted :)
The weather was so-so, cloudy. This is how official life in Czechia greeted us :)
By the way, the word "hora" (mountain) in the town name is not there by accident - the town is located far from flat ground. This will be visible in many following photos. I remember in the very first day on the train I talked with a Czech - he praised both Podebrady and Nymburk (he was from there) for the fact that the landscape is flat - easy to ride a bike.
In Podebrady cyclists are everywhere, here - nowhere.
I love examining details. Here, for example, the owners of this house got tired of pulling spam out of the mailbox.
Like everywhere in Czechia - the town seems to be crumbling, but also seems not to be.
This is approximately the town center. Typical, you can't tell it from another.
By the way, cars here also drive on cobblestones. At first glance - beautiful. But loud and in places you can't see where the road is, where the sidewalk is.
Greenery on walls - Czechs love it very much.
As always - many familiar words.
In reality - every minute some landmark. Because there are so many of them - they're completely unremarkable.
And here the building on the left seemed industrial to me, or something. By the way, definitely pay attention where the water flows down the drainpipe. Not on the sidewalk, that would damage it (in Russia there are often holes under drainpipes, punched by drops), but straight into a drain manhole. A frequent phenomenon, by the way, though not everywhere. In Podebrady, for example, pipes are mounted right into the sidewalk, covered with a grate (which, in turn, are clogged with leaves), also lead to manholes.
By the way, here's a sign, shabby like that. What amuses me is that the little man wears a hat. Here, by the way, this is a frequent detail on conventional signs. A Czech in a hat in 4 months - haven't seen one.
The town especially pleased me with places where there's a beautiful view of "the beautiful distance".
Every self-respecting town has a store with Russian goods. Such stores are most often opened by people from Ukraine, goods are brought from Germany :) Always expensive there.
Here there are also two-faced houses: from the busy street the house is beautiful, from the non-busy one - crumbling.
And landmarks keep appearing.
And I, you know, still love it when you can see that the person who built the building loved his work. All sorts of details give it away.
Worth saying about street signs - nice, pity the shape is very simple. The bottom font, by the way, is poorly visible on the go.
Wouldn't it be pleasant to live in such a house?
Found this one too, though only one. With a taaaall tree. Which will stick out right in your window.
Still, they're not strangers to the sense of beauty. Crooked, but at least they tried.
And then this place attracted me. Pay attention to the deer on the left above.
Here it's right autumn, very beautiful.
And here you can look at graffiti wonders.
Not for nothing we turned here, in general.
By the way, on the streets there are often such trash bins. Residents roll them out on schedule. Their big minus - sometimes they block the entire passage.
Here a person couldn't resist and painted and wrote all over everything. By the way, you need to read by rows, even though you want to read by columns.
Without realizing it ourselves, we came to the center again. Riot of colors, even bigger riot of prices :)
And someone didn't bother at all. Really tired of this pink paint, by the way.
There were already more people.
Classic for all Europe "plague column"
By that time walking had gotten fairly tiresome, so it was decided to go to the town's famous landmarks.
Then we reached the cathedral too. Tall.
Well, just in case someone might be interested. Don't know who reads these things.
Inside empty, simple.
Attention to the head. Karlsson?
There are no miracles in temples, so it has to be guarded by quite human forces.
Like in movies, just can't enter.
Stones lying around. They said they're original. Not very.
I'm joking here all the time, but, seems like, there's something to look at.
Just need to raise your head.
And try to look where you can't point with arrows.
And have you seen an organ?
A spiral staircase was noticed. You know, agree, it's always curious to climb into such places.
In general, very few miracles.
But my curiosity was satisfied - well where else would I have climbed under a temple roof with impunity?
There is still something magical in these stained glass windows. Well, for me.
Very empty, still, inside.
Ventilation works.
And here's a hole in the wall. I would be interested to know its purpose, not those statues or stones. But such things are rarely talked about - people don't even see them.
Good, in general, when a place is unpopular. There's time to look for something beautiful that wasn't found before you. I liked, really, this angle.
