While in the Czech Republic, Simon and I decided to explore the local town of Chotoviny. Its roughly 3000 people and very quiet and sleepy. A great place for anyone to simply “get away from it all” for awhile. For a long time, we both thought the town was shut down due to no one being out on the streets at all. This is not like the US where almost anywhere there are people doing all sorts of things daily. So we walked and walked until we finally came to the train station. It as well, appeared deserted. Simon asked me to keep a look out for any trains as he wanted to get on the tracks and take some “on your belly” fisheye shots of the track. Since you could easily see a 1/4 mile in both directions, I was not concerned in the slightest. A few minutes later as we were both on the ground, checking out what our lenses were seeing, we turned around to the side a bit to be completely startled by a fast moving yellow train which seemed to make little to no noise.

Moral of the story – - – “In the Czech Republic, the trains are electric and make no noise”We are very lucky that we were not on THAT particular track as we would not be here today. And as all of you are now laughing at how stupid we were . . . it was no laughing matter at the time. (Ok . . . we did laugh quite hysterically once we started our hearts again.)