Ruze Cesky Krumlov

Castle tours are broken into several different ones, each of which charges. Costs can add up and are much higher than most places but still well worth it. The castle is well restored. The tour guide has memorized the English portion making the tour stilted but entertaining to listen. The tower offers great views. <br><br>We then go on the Eggenberg Brewery Tour. It is a brewery that mostly brews for local consumption. We get some good local ...

... too many people are around. <br><br>The hostel has an interesting hobbit look on the outside with a teeny-tiny door. It is a crash pad type place with its small, more communal style. After a night, Sharon decides that in the future, private rooms are preferred. I have become very used to dorms. Hostels have become my way to socialize and further my interactions with folks from other countries. Private rooms do feel great.

... br>Tuesday I did a tour of the Eggenberg brewery which I was lucky to get on as I wandered down whilst I had some washing on to see what times they did the tour and they only do 1 a day at 11am so jumped in on that and finished washing off later.<br>Tour was excellent. Rosta our guide was a crack up. They have a unfiltered and unpasteurised "Yeast Beer" that they brew there that is only available at the restuarant/pub upstairs and is pumped ...

... 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!

... figures--outstanding. We have a wonderful pension. Our room is furnished in yellows and oranges. The feather beds are covered in a floral dotted Swiss fabric and there are Klimt reproductions on the walls. We overlook a narrow street. The pension was built in 1526. It backs onto the river where there is a terrace on which we breakfast this morning. We are now heading off to a tour of the Eggenberg Brewery after which we will have a tour of ...

... to know was "why have I got the wrong ticket and how can I resolve this?". As he spoke to the conductor at length I though that we must be finally getting somewhere but when he came back with the response that "I had the wrong ticket" I was starting to tear my hair out. Just when being kicked off the train in the middle of nowhere became a real possibility I said that I would just buy a new ticket, whatever needed to be done to resolve this I was ready to do. The conductor seemed much ...

... carefully put together by master craftsmen. But once up close it was clear it was an illusion &#8211; the masonry had all been painted onto flat and otherwise plain surfaces. This &#8216;mutton dressed as lamb&#8217; approach to exterior design lives on today in those skilled artisans who can craft an exterior wood finish without the need for treating timber or worrying about the ravages of ...

... worse off than me. These bloody kangaroos had taken their toll across the board. Everyone except Therese got up at the unseasonably vicious hour of eight to check out the sights, so the two of us headed off in the mid arvo to do the same, as the others attempting to purge their hangovers via a series of nana naps. Cesky Castle is one of the most impressive tourist sights i'd come across to date. With a huge protruding, ornate pinkish tower emanating as the centrepiece, the ...

... made. Completely covered in gold and resplendent with cherubs, it delivered gifts to Pope Urban VIII and then, mysteriously, was never used again. We visited the town museum and found, like the restaurants, it was very similar to all other provincial museums - full of exhibits and empty of people. An elderly lady silently followed us around. We thought it was to stop us touching the exhibits but she just wanted ...