Day 7 – PRAGUE to PASSAU | DADart Photography

Leaving Prague we first had to change money to get the van out of the train station parking lot. I don’t remember exactly how much it was for three days but it seems like it was several thousand Czech Crowns. There was a little excitement when we had to step over several drunks sleeping in the stairwell of the parking garage…

Top of the train station. Built in 1871 and originally called Franz Josef Station, it was renamed Wilson Station from 1945 to 1953 and had a statue of Woodrow Wilson in the nearby park. Germans tore down the statue in 1941 when US entered the war… Station is now named Praha Hlavni Nadrazi

Leaving the city we headed southwest out of the Czech Republic and back into Germany and on to Passau, in Bavaria. Shot this photo through the window as we traveled past one of many “solar farm” installations. The contryside scenery is beautiful, far more scenic than Indiana flat farm fields, but I never found myself wishing the solar panels or wind mills weren’t there. If they don’t “spoil” this scenery they certainly won’t spoil Indiana’s…

We stopped first to check in at our next hotel for the night. There was a little bakery across the street from our room. I liked the simplicity of the lines and color.

Another cool manhole cover. This one is in Passau but was made in Kaiserslautern (the town Jennie lives in).

St. Stephan’s Cathedral (Dom St. Stephan) – Baroque, around 1668.
It has “the largest organ outside the United States and the largest of any Cathedral in the world” with 17,774 pipes.

Tower of St. Stephen’s

Next photo is a merging of 4 photos into one.

Someone’s bones (relics) encased in a glass altar. Kind of creepy, actually lotta creepy. I have a closeup but I’ll spare you. The label says “SANQVIS SII CASTVLI MARTURIS”. Anyone know what that means?