plenty of travel today, 530ish kilometers of bus ride, though of course we couldnt pass the trip without stopping for something or other. we stopped at what was described as a castle, though i immediately noted it was more of a chateau. it was the Lednice Chateau, which i just accidentally deleted my notes for, so we will see what i can remember. it was built some time in the 1200s, and was rather shortly after its construction handed over to the House of Lichtenstein ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princely_Family_of_Liechtenstein ). the various princes of the Lichtenstein house (being very rich) were avid hunters, traveling to Africa, Asia, and in the 17th and 18th centuries to the Americas to hunt exotic game. so all over the place were antlers, and heads, and bird and stuffed stuff.
this is a banner from the battle of Austerlitz, you know the battle were Napoleon beat the shit out of Tsar Alexander I and Holy Roman Emperor Francis II
the fancy staircase is actually all from ONE tree, unfortunately its not carved from a single tree, but all the pieces of wood came from the same tree, it took 3 artisans 5 years to finish it (or 5 artisans 3 years, im not sure i deleted the notes, same amount of man-hours though so whatever)
that last picture, of the greenhouse is pretty cool, cause the guide mentioned that the greenhouse involved a whole bunch of new technologies (again dont remember specifics, and the internet is kinda lacking) for the time it was built in the early 1800s. other than that we got back to prague, a few of us went to a shitty restaurant, and paid waaaayyy too much, like, a half litre of Pilsner Urquel, (which normally goes for 25-35 CZK) was 89, and the chicken burger which i wanted, but they didnt have it, but then they wanted more money, and then, i dont know what happened, but i ent up paying like 15USD for a shitty meal, i went home, did some laundry, wrote this, and now wanna go to sleep. laters
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