We were on 5-km lockdown in Crumlin, Dublin inner-city, strictly enforced
and it made me dream of an old Czech city, Telč
Crumlin is grey on grey
Telč, a technicolour dreamscape
a baroque layer cake.. I could think only of Mr Kipling French Fancies from my childhood
and Český Krumlov, a couple of hours away
has a garret full of old marionettes
like the forgotten attic of a master puppet maker
they swing from the rafters
Czech stop-motion films, marionettes
I’ve always loved them – unearthly but with a very human quality
uncanny
two hundred of them hang from the beams of St Jobst Church
in old Český Krumlov, deepest Bohemia
Cold water coast 
Telc is an amazing place. I had the chance to visit the former Czechoslovakia before the fall of Communism back in the mid-“80s: what a trip!
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Wow that must’ve been interesting in those times … It’s a fascinating country
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