czech republic: telc

one morning mom and i were out the door at 0715 so we could catch the metro to the bus station...the ride to telc was almost four hours, though it was only supposed to be three hours...somehow the bus ended up on back roads, due to some detour...i think we surprised a few of the locals as the bus went through :)...it also surprised mom to hear people on the bus telling the driver how to do his job...(this didn't happen when she was growing up)...apparently he was fairly new on the job and didn't quite know where to go...

telc is a unesco listed town, the platz in the middle of town is very picturesque...i think it was founded in medieval times?
not all the buildings are used as they once were, and not all of them are inhabited anymore, probably because of cost...mom pointed out a few that weren't inhabited anymore, you could see there aren't any curtains in the windows anymore...
it probably costs a lot to live in one of these places, and you can't modernize things very easily...both of us wondered what the place will be like in 10-20 years, as the town is small, and th ere is nothing else happening...

at one end of the big square, (which isn't really shaped like a square at all) are the bell tower of a church, and the castle...mom had already been up the bell tower and didn't feel the need to go again, but i was keen...plus, my knees are good with stairs for another decade, i might as well get a workout:)...the town is small, i could see farmland really close!
we went in the boundaries of the castle, but opted not to take any of the interior tours...i liked wandering the gardens, though they were small...
several times during the day we stopped to sit and eat...once was ice cream, another time for tea, and a third time for an early dinner/late lunch...

to kill time before catching the bus back to praha we wandered one of the 'normal' city streets...absolutely nothing worth seeing, i couldn't even figure out a photo to take...
the bus ride back was crazy too, but in a different way...this time the bus driver was a wannabe fire truck driver...apparently he had had that training, and figured you could drive a bus that way aswell...i suppose it's physically possible, but probably not the best idea...i wasn't car sick (surprisingly,) but i wasn't feeling very safe either, as he was careening around curves and always going faster than any of the passengers felt was safe...the passengers yelled at this guy too, mom found it even more amusing...