Orea Hotel Dvorak Cesky Krumlov

... few seat when we reserved last night. The bus ride is excellent and really cheap at $8/person for the 3 hour ride to Prague. The company is Student Agency but is not limited to students. For whatever reason, LP does not even mention them in my guide. <br><br>Since we are opting for private rooms, I make a reservation using Hotwire. It is a 3 star hotel for $60 in "central Prague". After paying for the room, Hotwire gives the details. It is near ...

... 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 ...

... is a Czech herbal liquer. The original is like spiced Jagermeister and the lemon one was a lot nicer. Barman at Muci Bar was kind enough to give us a small shot of each for free! Tried 7/6% Budweisser but it doesn't taste as nice as the normal 5% version. Also had a Desperado beer which is beer mixed with vodka.<br>Ended the night drinking Tom Collins' for some reason. <br><br><br>Wednesday and it's snowing a fair bit on and off all day which is good ...

... was pretty empty, but I met a Canadian girl so we wandered the town in the evening and visited a few bars. Apparently it&#8217;s a really popular town on the weekend with a big nightlife&#8230; just not so much on a Tuesday night! I guess it was a good thing as we had to trek up a big hill in the morning to catch an 8.30 train to get to Berlin!

... tiny. Ok so, that makes it bigger than the Heads, but that&#8217;s not difficult. The town is really nice &amp; cute, the kind of thing you would expect from a place that has a medieval fair every year where people dress up in medieval dress. UNofrtuntely it started just after I left. But the small cuteness of the town meant I'd seen it within a day. Which left a day &amp; half to explore the castle &amp; go strolling along/floating in the ...

Cesky Krumlov is a UNESCO protected world heritage site and rightfully so.  It is nestled at the foot of beautiful surrounding hills with the Vltava river snaking through the heart of the old town.  Megan put it best when she said that this place is "very photogenic".  It is pretty hard to take a bad picture here, even if it was overcast for most of our stay.  The place that we stayed at is being run by some friends of ours that we met in the summer ...

Tuesday 10th June: Prague I feel touched and extremely privileged to have been in such wonderful company over the last week and shared with them the most special of memories, memories that will stay with me for as long as I'm sane enough to remember them. Hopefully my mind will stay intact right up until the very end of my lifetime. Goodness knows if id stayed any longer in what I've nicknamed 'hostel California' my sanity might not have lasted much longer. With the girls leaving too it ...

... It&#8217;s simply ingenious what some people can make things look like with concrete. This creative approach was also currently being used to good effect in other purely functional Czech towns we passed through by bus and train, with wavy bright colours used to great effect to cheer up the appearances of a small percentage of the gloomy grey concrete Communist apartment blocks that ...

... intermingles with it. This caught my attention because usually the castle is set apart, standing guard or at least standing proud. Instead this castle allows people to walk through its many arches as they venture off in various directions. The moats have been turned into homes for some bears. I am not sure if they were meant to warn off intruders, they looked pretty sleepy and cute. I am sure their appearance could have changed if I had tried to venture through their ...

... monks wouldn't have expected a giant eight-branched chandelier that hangs over the crypt and is composed of every bone in the body, or a skeletal Schwarzenberg family coat-of-arms. It would make a great scene in a low budget horror movie. Telc, like Kutna Hora, has a huge, cobble-stoned town square. Nestling between Bohemia and Moravia in the south of the country, the town is fortified and surrounded by moats and ...