John Sheldon's photos

The inscription K+M+B 2014 translates "Christus Mansionem Benedicat 2014" - ie, Christ bless this house in 2014. It appeared on numerous doors in the Prague area.

Thomas Masaryk (1850 - 1937) was the founder and first President of Czeckoslovakia. This statue at Kutná Hora has been up and down during the political stresses and strains of the 20th century.

The massive white building was a college for Jesuits. It now houses, amongst other things, an art gallery. The cathedral in the background ends where the roof disappears, it should have been twice that length but the town ran out of money so they just built an end wall at the place they had reached. On the slope are grape vines in tiers.

In the cemetery chapel at Kutná Hora, near Prague. There was no seat and no room for your legs, so presumably this little 'positive organ' has to be played standing up.

The Ossuary (bone church) at Kutná Hora, near Prague. Warning - this video contains images of human bones.