5-km lockdown in Crumlin, Dublin
took my mind back to an old Czech city, Telč
Crumlin: mostly grey, brown & green. 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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