October 2013
My first serious trip around Czechia. With delayed trains and forced wandering through the town of Kostelec u Jihlavy, where our train stopped without any declaration of war. In total, the journey from Poděbrady took about 5 hours, but I survived.
So is it Telč or Telch? I don't fucking know.
You can immediately see that everything here is historic. This, for example, as written on the sign - is the historic core.
Jokes aside, autumn in Czechia is beautiful. Though only when it's sunny, on cloudy days not so much.
The town is not located on flat terrain at all.
The houses are typical Czech.
And they have their own rivers.
And fields.
Essentially - 1 main street that goes around the town. Everything interesting is in the center.
And we started approaching the house where we had booked a room.
We found the hotel on Booking, Privát u Máji. The house owners are a Czech couple, about 50 years old, cheerful :) They try to speak Russian too, but it doesn't matter - we tried to speak Czech :)
If you ever go to Telč - I think you can contact them - we really liked it there.
the old man poured me some of his hard moonshine, I had heartburn for a couple of hours
We had a beautiful room under the roof. I'd always wanted to stay in one like this.
The hostess immediately brought homemade pastries. Everything else was ours, bought on the way at Tesco.
But it was still early, so we went for a walk around the famous town.
This time of year the town stops being touristy, so the square is empty. Walk as much as you want.
Regular blog readers already know what this is :)
It's always been interesting how the achievements of civilization and ancient objects should coexist. Here you somehow don't even question it, but in Moscow beauty is often defaced in the name of convenience.
Here it's simpler. For locals to park near such objects - it's no sin (and it pisses me off)
The buildings are low, but you lift your head to look at the traditionally beautiful upper parts of buildings
And if you look closer, you can see funny details - for example, a drainpipe with a hole above it. By the way, you can't see it from a distance.
It's starting to get dark. By the way, pay attention to the device in the middle - there's a handle you need to spin very fast. When you spin it, in a special window you can see what the town was like and what it became. You won't believe it, but I didn't have the strength to spin it to the required speed :)
And then we went to see how people actually live. A typical Czech sign with a hat and bow. In reality, Czechs wear neither hats nor bows.
Czech halos never cease to blow my mind :)
The town extends into the distance, but I didn't have the strength to go there anymore.
I've always liked these kinds of inscriptions above shops. In our country, it's customary to change them to modern, plastic ones that all look the same.
And Czechs, you see, love amateur work. A notice about little animals, for example.
Or such beauty.
In the dark the town seems different.
So we went home. We sat on the internet (quite weak), watched Czech TV for the first time and went to sleep. The plans for the next day were to visit a couple of attractions and leave home during the day.
In the morning this kind of breakfast awaited us from the hostess. Hearty :)
Still, it's funny sometimes to see how foreigners write in Russian. Funny until the moment you try to say something in another language yourself :)
By the way, I'll tell you about a cool Czech fact that's alien to Russia. Everywhere there are very large spiderwebs with considerable spiders in them. They weave webs mainly where the wind blows - to catch insects. Wherever I've been, in a place where the wind blows - there's always a web with a huge spider in it. In Poděbrady, for example, the whole bridge is covered with them. Seriously, literally the whole thing.
In the morning we found some branch of ČVUT.
Also found some piece of Masaryk University.
This clock is famous for something. In reality - just a clock.
I love beautiful doors.
We entered some inner courtyard. By the way, the climate in Czechia in autumn is quite humid, so in the mornings such dew is not uncommon.
And in the morning, strangely enough, people appeared in the town.
We wanted to go up and take a couple of shots - but fuck that, you can only visit in summer.
And it was early, so we went for a walk to the river.
Lovers of various ducks and swans have a direct road to Czechia - in my opinion, they're everywhere here.
And spiders too.
In the end, we went on a tour of the local castle.
Photography was not allowed there! Only in the passages between sides, i.e. only the street. The interiors - absolutely not allowed, it's a great heritage after all.
And outside - just everything, you've seen it a hundred times already.
Such is this UNESCO heritage.
With a fountain and goldfish.
The tour, of course, was boring. Time was running out, so we went to the station.
And is that a stream?
But it all ended well. As usual, we got on a yellow two-car train, didn't forget about the bus transfer (still not fixed), and in just 3 hours we were home.
Summary:
I really enjoyed the trip to Telč. There was something to see, nothing was oppressive. We bought lots of postcards and souvenirs (fortunately, it all cost pennies, it's not Prague after all). We ate delicious and cheap food (no exaggeration, we got the famous knuckle for two). The hotel was also very good (look for the link in the article, per night for two it came out to about 900 crowns). Total budget for two (for 2 days and 1 night) - just under 2000 crowns (about 3500 rubles). Definitely recommend. The main downside is difficult transport accessibility, but that's also a plus - there are no annoying tourists there.