After a rather long hot bus ride, we arrived in Olomouc yesterday. Its the former capital of Moravia, the other province in Czech Republic besides Bohemia. Well, its absolutely lovely. It has several large squares with loads of statues and fountains. The best part is that there are almost no tourists! Seriously, there are just no tourists around but yet the sites are seriously picturesque.
Last afternoon after arriving, we hot footed it to two museums. They are free on Wednesday and us being cheap bastards, we squeezed two in a couple of hours. First we checked out the arch diocese museum. It was paintings collected by the bishops and arch bishops of Olomouc. Very nice older paintings, with some history mixed in. Then we perused the art museum, which had a 1960s album art show which was intriguing. We also saw their regular exhibit of local modern art, which had some nice art nouveo pieces.
Today we are just wandering around the city. We checked out a Czech version of the dollar store, which was very cheap and diverse.
I write this in a city park….and we are about to check out the only socialist astronomical clock in the world.
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