Czech Day 2 Update

So day number 2 in Slavonice was even more packed full. We went on tours of neighboring towns, ate at a restaurant, came back to the city, then went to see a concert. Yes, a concert in a town of around 2700 people.
The tour was amazing. I saw a few really great castles like these:



Oh, BTW, that one is for sale too.

I also toured the exterior of a gothic church:


And that one....it had a vault full of human bones stacked in a pile within the wall around the cememetary.

The remainder of the tour was great, from driving through the countryside, to the small towns, to seeing the old abandoned (and even some never used) bunkers, to being atop a bunker and capturing this panoramic photo:


(Apparently, as I stood atop the bunker taking photos, my long hair flowing in the high winds, my friends waiting for me in the vans thought I looked like a heavy metal album cover.)

After we went back to Slavonice, we were presented with two presentations. One was on the Green Belt that is planned to replace the swath of land previously dominated by the iron curtain. The second presentation was a more specific program of how to attract visitors to that green belt in a way to support cross-country usage and cooperation.

Then the finale. A group of us (about 6-8) went to see a band labeled as "Grind Core" that was here from Brazil. I couldn't pass up the chance to see crazy music in a small town. Our Czech colleague declined the invite, for she had been to such events. The warning she gave made us think it would be drunks/drugs and violence. It had drunks, but none of the other two. It was not my musical preference, but being there was a lot of fun. Of course those of us there REALLY stuck out.

I returned to my room...and again the jet lag making me not tired, so I again stayed up transferring the hundreds of pictures from the day before.

DAY 3 - TO BE CONTINUED