Hotel The Old Inn Cesky Krumlov

... from the old town. We walk to a bus stop and take it downtown. The problems continue. Sharon is exhausted and wants the nearest hostel, not one 100m further. We end up at Hostel Tyn with a private room. As luck would have it, our new home lands us in the middle of Old Town right behind the Church of Our Lady Before Tyn and the Old Town Square. A nice Thai dinner, bottle of wine, and some gorgeous views of the city makes the world seem much nicer.

... a restored castle town. The castle is atop the hill as we start our walk to the hostel. The buildings and streets transport one back in time. <br><br>We have drinks at bar that is cave-like then dinner in a neat, tiny, inn-like restaurant (Two Mary's) with homemade courses, otherwise known as the Bohemian Feast. Food was only marginal but the atmosphere was nice. The town is very pretty by night. It is way off season so ...

... a Budwiesser and a Budweisser dark.<br>Also saw they had camembert cheese cooked on the grill so ordered one of them with a hot mead as an after dinner snack - AMAZING!!! Both the cheese and the mead. Perfect finish to the meal.<br>I thought the mead would come in a tankard like mug or a goblet/chalice type of thing, but it came in a tea cup :)<br>Only had room tepmerature mead before and hot is good! Perfect for the cold Cesky Krumlov weather.<br ...

... the afternoon and a night there, but that&#8217;s all you really need. It&#8217;s a tiny medieval town with a castle and a river running through it, and being there is like stepping back in time. We ate a traditional Czech lunch, wandered the cobble-stone streets, the castle grounds and went up the Castle tower for some beautiful views.<br><br>The ...

... out with tickets to an English tour---only 7 of us on the tour, with a cute teen-age guide who was doing only her second tour in English. She did very well. The castle was owned by three different families over several centuries--the Rozenbergs, the Eggenbergs, and the Schwarzenbergs. The furnishings are elegant in many styles from Renaissance to Rococo. We saw a Commedia del Arte theater there that had murals of pierrots and harlequins and ...

... with specialty and souvenir shops, and enough cafes and restaurants to keep you gastronomically stimulated for weeks.  There is also the old Eggenberg Brewery that has a very interesting story.  We were told that for years the owners of the Brewery used members of the towns vagrant population as the work force paying them not with cash but rather in - you guessed it - beer.  Apparently some time ago new owners took over and tried to clean the ...

... was to knock on the surrounding carriages until eventually I came across a Czech/ English speaker. Unfortunately he was as useless to me as a fork in a sugar bowl. The only thing I could get out of him was that I had the wrong ticket. By this stage the conductor had grabbed my luggage and we were all standing in the tight corridor. I explained to the translator, I use this term loosely, I could gather even without speaking the language that there was a problem with my ticket but what I ...

... restaurants lining the cobbled streets had been commercialised in a way that didn&#8217;t feel tacky or overdone and there were no overhead power lines strung up between buildings to blemish the view of the charming streetscapes (a particular regret of mine in most European Old Towns). <br> <br><br>From afar, the brightly coloured brickwork of the exterior of the castle looked as if it had ...

October 6, 2005 Cesky Krumlov Our plane tickets came yesterday and we have said our goodbyes to the lovely Hallstatt. We spent the day on the train trying to get less than a hundred miles away. It was a bit frustrating, but that is just how it goes when you don't have a car at your luxury. We made it to the Czech Republic and are enjoying the inexpensive side of ...

... We tried it the next day and capsized. The grand Cesky Krumlov castle and mansion tower is now being carefully restored. Its crowning triumph is the Masquerade Hall which features a party of masked guests painted on the walls and windows, enjoying an 18th century ball. Apparently a masked ball could go on for days in summer. The castle also contains a gilded coach that must be the most expensive piece of kitsch ...