Crapping on a yak.....overland to the other side of the world and the rest

This is the story of my 32 week London to Sydney overland trip on a big orange truck with 30 odd other people.....and what happens after.. I try to find the best pizza in the world. I test the limits of endurance of my T-shirts in the hunt for the most bizarre location in which to bump into a fellow fan of the band 'The Fall'. Slightly more successfully, I try to take a guitar to as many of the world's monuments as I can. Finally, I confront the greatest cultural divide of them all...toilets.

Day five - 06 August 2009 Church of Bones, then on to Vienna

On the way to Vienna we stop at the ‘Church of Bones’ (www.Kostnice.cz), which dates from the 15th century but whose cemetery has bodies only from the last 100 years. This is because there are the remains of 40,000 inside the church arranged into elaborate pyramids and sculptures.

Apparently the pyramids of bones are delicately balanced on top of each other to create a cavity in the middle where people throw coins….I try to start a game of jenga, but the alarm goes off…

In the morning we are told sternly that breakfast is @ 7a.m. when we need to start out the next day, and definitely not 7:30. Not something I feel that inclined to pay much attention to.

Crapping on a yak.....overland to the other side of the world and the rest

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