Nutella in the car!!
Remember how I said before that we have the best road snacks ever? Well it got even better. Dad had the brilliant idea of just keeping a jar of Nutella in the car! Yes! We actually bought a knock-off brand because they exist here and they are cheaper and you wouldn't know the difference, anyway. So I had a delicious banana Nutella breakfast this morning. Today like yesterday- we were driving a lot to get to Hungary but first we had one stop before we left the Czech Republic.
We visited the Bone Church in Kutna-Hora. It is a very creepy-macabre church where everyone wanted to be buried because some man in the 13th century brought dirt from Golgotha and sprinkled it on the ground. So to them it was very holy land- a good place to be buried. Their total is 40,000 people laid to rest there. How? Well when they ran out of ground they started using the bones to decorate and build large pyramids of bones. It was like something right out of Indiana Jones or Lord of the Rings 3. Pretty freaky. I think if I wanted to be an archeologist or someone like Brennan from Bones I could do it. But there was something so weird about using the bones all mixed together, and as decorations, that was really disturbing. It didn't FEEL like a place to honor the dead and let them rest, especially since they have four candelabras, mostly of skulls, that you can touch. Dad did- so I did quickly. I mean, just last night I decided to do things I've never done before and I certainly had never touched a human skull.
Btw- even with all the strange things you will see in movies and you imagine what they would be like- you NEVER know how you will really react to such things. It was WEIRD. Have I said it enough? Weird morning.
We didn't stay long. Had to hit the road.
Getting to Budapest took longer than we hoped due to road work but we found an information center and bought tickets for a on-off bus tour around the city. The buses took us around all of the center of town to see the monuments and buildings, but only in passing. It's a good way of seeing everything quickly and seeing things you may want to revisit later.
Our place for the night is very close to all of the major sites to see- very close to the center of the city. Our host is the most adorable young woman! She was as sweet and helpful as they come but she also had a high-pitched mousy voice like a cartoon. She was just too cute. It's hard to describe her. So she came out the door, and we're so 'tickled' (as my mom would say) to see her hustle about to help us upstairs. Then we see her flat- her painting studio, actually- which was HUGE! All if the ceilings were 12-14 feet high! Large rooms full kitchen and roomy bathroom. This is NOT the kind of apartment you expect to see in the middle of a big city and owned by a young person. Plus- she doesn't live there. It's just her studio. Incredible. My favorite part? A piano in the corner by the window. The acoustics were fantastic and I felt different playing that piano in that setting. I had a lovely evening to myself in the flat, listening to Zsofie's collection of music while my parents went out in the late boat cruise. They got back very late but dad went out again to take more pictures while mom went to bed. I think we could all say that we had a lovely and perfect day.
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