Czech Republic

This was, I think, an unintentionally blurred shot, although I could be wrong. The fact was the film was only 100 ISO, so it made it easier to get in that sense.

This was one of the smallest, but not the smallest, station on this route. Many Czech branchline stations are among the smallest in the world, consisting only of sheltered benches, but this one was a bit bigger.

Stetkovice had a more proper station, being equipped with electricity, even.

Kosova Hora was one of the most elaborate intermediate stations on the route.

This mill is on the outskirts of Sedlcany, although I don't know if it's a grist mill or a cheese mill. Does anybody know? Sedlcany is known, after all, for being the home of Hermelin cheese.

This building, while very old-looking, is actually the "Nove Radnice," or new town hall, and as it dates to 1903, it is a bit new by European standards.

This is the town museum of Sedlcany, with the clock tower, which has a great deal of local exhibits, of course, but my best story from this place was that a guy there was collecting U.S. State quarters. He just wanted me to mail him some, but I told him, in broken Czech and German, that I lived in Prague. He seemed to think that I went to the U.S. practically every week, so he just asserted that I should pick some up the next time I'm home. Eventually, I got out of any deals, but I still would like to track him down sometime. The problem is that he doesn't use the internet....so....what could I do???

Here's another view of the museum and the old town square.

Nadrazni sort of means "station street," or something like that. You can see the rail station on the center-right of the photo.

This is the Dean Church of St. Martin, which from what I can roughly gather from the Czech plaque on it, can trace its ancestry back to 1294. If anybody could translate the plaque (in the next shot), then maybe we could learn a bit more. :-)

Here's the Czech-language plaque on the Kostel sv. Martin.

Here was my railbus, the same one that took me to Sedlcany, awaiting departure in the Sedlcany yard.

And....here's my parting shot of the Sedlcany yard. It's actually a bit more extensive than I would expact for such a small town, so it might be that there is or was some freight traffic here.

I've been seeing these inspection/maintenance cars quite a bit in Cercany, probably because they're verifying that the corridor reconstruction is being done correctly. When I took this, Cercany was in a much earlier stage of its reconstruction, though.

While playing around with Elsemuko's Technicolor script in Gimp (still unsuccessfully, unfortunately, although not due to the script not working), I accidentally discovered that if I used Gimp's standard auto-equalize feature, I would get this, which rather than looking Technicolor, looks more like a bad Autochrome. Oh well....I still like it. It looks kind of like an old postcard, I think.

The full name of this basilica is the "Basilica Minor of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary," which is such a long name that it's rarely used. Dating to 1669, this basilica was one of the places Pope John Paul II visited in 1995.

This is a more common angle on the basilica, showing the twin clock towers.

This sundail wasn't working on this particular day, as it was too gloomy out, without any shadows.