Random Brno Shots

I feel fine and have no symptoms to report, except a headache, but that is normal. Its also normal that I shouldn't be feeling anything yet. Implantation could happen very soon though because one of the blastocysts was already at the hatching stage meaning it would be ready to implant within 48 hours.

I spent all of yesterday resting in my hotel room but today I ventured out a bit. Here are a few random shots from the day...

A baroque church with an unusual altar. I've never seen a staircase like this before an altar. Pretty interesting.

 For Miran, a manpower office (its the company he works for) ...

 Some stumbling stones (stolpersteine) I stumbled across ...

 And a close up of the stumbling stones. The sunshine family didn't fare too well ... three died in Auschwitz, including the 11 year old Pavel. However, one son seems to have been sent from Auschwitz to Buchenwald and to have survived. I don't think I've ever seen a stumbling block for a survivor. I guess the artist wanted to do the whole family. I do think this is the most amazing holocaust memorial - both tiny and huge, individual and collective, and truly effective of suddenly reminding you that terrible things happened here in the past - without getting in your way.

 I also took a tour of the cellars under the main market square. They have connected up a number of the merchants basements and installed exhibits - like this one about wine making in the Brno area and wine storage.

 And here is me on the tour listening to my audioguide. The most interesting thing I learned was that in the cellars two stories below ground they put water in the winter to freeze and it took an entire year to melt (when they refilled it) - serving as year round freezers for meat. Cool.