Otocec was left behind yesterday. The spearhead of the Culture team managed a 600 km ride to Olomouc, Czech Republic, because we have a plan of making it also to Kaliningrad, to meet the old friend Pasha.
Rest of the guys chose Bratislava.
Olomouc is a 1000-year old town, 5th largest in Czech. The student percentage is supposed to be highest in the country, but all students seem to be away for the summer, and it is also some kind of national holiday now, so most of the bars and shops are closed.
What is remarkable here, is the amount of old churches, cathedrals, castles and palaces. There is one on every street corner.
One of the churches sports a massive old astronomical clock, displaying whatever those clocks display, phases of the moon, position of Mars in relation to Sagittarius etc. But what is different about this one to it's counterpart in Prague, is that it was rebuilt by communist government after WWII.
And since communism didn't give much credit to angels, saints, deities and other fairies that the clock's displays had been originally had, they replaced them with scientists, labourers and other working class heroes.
The plan to make haste to our Russian friend was interrupted by rain, and we decided to spend another day here. We already have seen lots of the old cathedrals, one even from the 46-m tower, and now we'll go find out what else this town has to offer.
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