I'm in Love - Cesky Krumlov!

Few Americans are aware of the small Bohemian village of Cesky Krumlov. It lies southwest of the larger Czech city of Cesky Budejovice, on the Austrian border. The town is a jewel of red tile roofs on a strategic series of oxbows in the Vltava river . . . the waters of which wend their way to Prague from here. Cesky Krumlov has been tremendously preserved, thanks to a 19th century celebration of design called Historism. This aesthetic followed the Roccoco, and was a conscious attempt to integrate design elements of the classical, medieval, renaissance, baroque, and roccoco. The end result is that all of these periods are represented in the buildings, towers, steeples, public squares and castle interiors. Wandering about this Czech town is like playing in a time machine. Krumlov features the second largest castle in the Czech Republic (after Prague) and has been declared a UNESCO world heritage site (second to Venice). In addition, you can raft down the river in inflatable canoes, hike in the grassy hills, or just sit in the mountain air and dine on the delicacies of Italy, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Bohemian, Monrovian, and of course American cuisine. Normally, I would keep a secret like this to myself, but the secret is out. All of Europe visits here, and the Czechs can use the tourism income to preserve the area. So on a hot summer day, this perfect setting is populated by sneaker wearing, tank top sweating, ice cream cone weilding tourists instead of the beautifully costumed aristocracy that watched over this land.
Hotels are numerous, but I can personally recommend, Pension Barbikan Room 6.