Czech this out

This was day I've been waiting for! We took a short drive to the village where my great-great grandfather grew up - Meisterdorf (now called Mistrovice). Meisterdorf was originally part of Bohemian Germany but is now about 30km inside of Czechoslovakia.


The drive was relatively easy; and getting out into the countryside was a great experience. The land is very green and most of it is either cultivated or maintained as pasture. We drove straight through Meisterdorf on recon path to get our bearings, then turned around and went back to check out a small museum. It turned out that the museum was the local fireman's museum. It was meticulously cared for with lots and lots of restored fire pumps and other equipment. We lucked out that there happened to be a mother and daughter visiting the museum at the same time and the daughter spoke decent english. She was happy to translate with the museum curators for us, so we got a ton of information about the local cemeteries, church, a glass museum in the next town and a festival that was going the same day!


The festival was awesome, we could not determine what it was celebrating, but a lot of people were dressed in costume for the occasion. Communication was tough here, but we managed to eventually get directions to the cemetery just down the road. The cemetery was beautiful - quaint and peaceful, everything was so green and well maintained. We didn't find and headstones with the family name, but there were some unnamed ones...

Once back in Děčín, we found a great Italian bar/restaurant that was in a building shaped and furnished like a boat! After dinner I managed to stroll back down to the Elbe (Labe in Czech) to shoot some night shots.