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Street Prophets Friday: Out and About Tábor (photo diary) [1]

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Date: 2025-05-23

Greetings and welcome to another of your ol' fuzzy-headed friend, Marko the Werelynx's Friday-flavored, open thread diaries posted to the Street Prophets group for all of Daily Kos to engage with or ignore, dip into, comment on, use as an open thread should be used— openly.

If you're looking for a place to vent, rant, promote, advertise or just kick back and share a bit of your week, a video that caught your eye, a bit of music, a taste of your creativity perhaps— please consider yourself welcome in this space.

This week, kicking things off, I'm posting the last series of photos from my last visit to the beautiful Czech town of Tábor. We took a long walk out past a little monastery quite close to the town and back through a river valley, into a small museum and up to the top of a castle tower for views over the town and the region around it.

Our journey began by walking through a little gateway.

And down the winding trails of this park,

Across this bridge and the open grassy area of the park—

Up a steep, straight path, a fantastic alley lined with the stations of the cross depicted in bronze bas-relief sculpture displayed on carved sandstone monuments and massive trees. Many of the beeches and oaks were hundreds of years old. It all led to the baroque monastery of Klokoty

Klokoty is home to this wooden nativity scene

Many more photos from Tábor and Klokoty can be found in my Christmas Diary from last December.

We walked to what I was led to believe was an observation tower.

That's a painted wooden stepladder and set permanently into the ground. The sign behind the bouquet of dandelions reads:

Rozhledna ŠTAFLE

Tábor — Klokoty

LP 2022

Rozhledna is an observation tower, štafle (one of the always plural Czech words) are a stepladder, and the LP stands for létopočet, literally "year count."

The view from the top wasn't much different from the view from the bottom.

Walking along the ridge, through the forest, we were occasionally granted glimpses of Tábor.

And some thoughtful people had made little, mossy homes for the fairies. Hard to see in this photo, but the tiny shelter on the right has a tiny sign at the entrance that reads "HOME" while the cozy spot on the left has a similar sign with the same word in Czech.

We made our way down through a boulder-strewn woodland to the river.

A footbridge over the river Lužnice. We just walked onto it to take a few pictures and then went back to continue our walk on the paths and roads along the left bank.

Walking back upstream toward Tábor

A picturesque boulder at the base of the hill.

We stopped at a popular little restaurant with seating outside and enjoyed a drink before continuing on our way. I didn't take any photos as I'm generally cautious about taking pictures with lots of people around— understanding that they might think I was taking pictures of them. Well, I am— but I don't want to appear to be some sort of aggressive, horrible paparazzi.

The Beneš Mill in the distance— now converted to a B & B.

I come across a view like this and wonder— horizontal?

… or vertical? Hmm, perhaps a bit brighter. I may play with the exposure on this one.

We saw several waterlogged, abandoned boats along the banks.

And this crumbling building just a short distance off a side road seemed worth a photo.

Heading back into the outskirts of town.

After climbing up through the lovely suburbs of Tábor, we came to The Bechyně Gate and Kotnov Tower.

And once through the gate, we headed to the left there and up some stairs which led into the gatehouse and a small museum.

These sculpted heads depict Hussite generals Jan žižka and Prokop the Great.

You can see how the heads were used in decorating this grand hall in the Hussite Museum from one of my previous diaries. They're a decorative end cap to the ribs of the vaulted ceiling. Fairly clearly seen on the left edge of this photo.

One of the floors of the little gatehouse

A wafer iron made by a jeweler named Prokop. The right side shows the earliest known depiction of Tábor (1527).

And sorry, yes— that's all the pictures I took inside! There was a lot packed into a couple floors. We only had about ten minutes for the museum and ...

The view from the top of the tower.

Watch your head on the way back down!

Thanks for stopping by.

This is an open thread.

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