The Grave of Franz Kafka

This is another layout from Praque - and besides actually loving this layout, I love the picture on page 2, bottom right corner. It's taken through a stone on one of the first graves after entering the graveyard.
I hadn't read anything by Franz Kafka before arriving in Praque but almost anywhere you went, the city of Praque was paying tribute to it's famous son. Later, I've read 'The Trial' and liked it so I think I'm going to read more by Kafka.

Materials:

• Cardstock: Club Scrap English garden
• Paper: Basic Grey Periphery
• Letter stickers: Basic Grey
• Font: Stamp act and Starbabe HMK

Journaling:

• English version:
  From the TV-Tower we walked on and took the tram to a jewish cemetery, the one where Franz Kafka is buried. For Peder to be allowed inside, he had to wear a jewish 'hat' - as you can see from the picture it looked really good on him!! This jewish cemetery opened around 1890 when the former jewish cemetery, paced at the now site of the TV-Tower was closed. The cemetery at the TV-Tower was the officiel jewish cemetery after the old jewish cemetry of Josefov closed, the one we saw yesterday. It had been used for several hundred years.
  This cemetry is still being used. It's incredible how many grave sites and gravestones that are on a jewish cemetery. They stand so close and already you can see how this one over time will develop and be like the one in Josefov.
  It was easy to find Kafka's grave and when we walked away from it we walked along the wall and noticed one memorial after another for artist disappeared in the KZ camps. It's scary how these memorials are everywhere in the jewish areas! The Germans was frightening effective!
  The picture at the left may not be a typical vacation shot but when I saw this gravestone I had to take a picture through it - and I love it! It looks so good with the gravestones being in focus in the middle of the circle while the stone that fills the most of the frame, is out of focus. Cool shot!!!
• Danish version:
  Fra TV-tårnet tog vi videre, til fods og med sporvogn til en jødisk kirkegård, nemlig den hvor Franz Kafka ligger begravet. For at Peder måtte gå rundt derinde, skulle han have en kalot på – som man kan se på billedet klædte den ham super godt!! Denne jødiske kirkegård åbnede omkring 1890 da den tidligere jødiske kirkegård, der lå for foden af TV-tårnet, blev lukket. Kirkegården ved TV-tårnet var den officielle jødiske kirkegård efter at den gamle jødiske kirkegård i Josefov, som vi så i går, lukkede efter at have fungeret i flere hundrede år.
  Denne kirkegård er så stadig i brug. Det er utroligt hvor mange gravsteder og –sten, der er på en jødisk kirkegård. De står bare så tæt og man kan allerede på denne se, hvordan den over tid vil udvikle sig til at blive ligesom den i Josefov.
  Vi fandt let Kafkas grav og da vi gik fra den, gik vi langs muren og lagde mærke til det ene mindesmærke efter det andet for kunstnere forsvundet i KZ-lejrene. Det er skræmmende, hvordan der er disse mindeplader lige gyldigt hvor man vender sig hen, så snart man er i et jødisk område. Tyskerne var skræmmende effektive!
  Billedet her til venstre er måske ikke et typisk feriebillede, men da jeg så denne gravsten, var jeg bare nødt til at tage et billede ind igennem den – og jeg elsker det! Det ser så godt ud med gravstenene der er helt skarpe inde i cirklen, mens selve stenen – der fylder det meste af rammen – er uskarp. Fedt billede!!