Sleeping beauty - the fairy tale town of Cesky Krumlov

Our guest blogger Simon, a British expatriate now living in Munich, continues his travels to Eastern Europe. After he found himself fascinated by the urban dynamism of the Polish capital in spring, he has stumbled into a very different place in summer: a little Czech town where time seems to have stood still… If you were a medieval knight fallen asleep in the forest and cast into five hundred years of enchanted slumber by a mischievous ogre and you then woke up on one of the wooded hillt…