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noticed // june 14, 2019

day seventeen

The views just have not stopped. Anywhere I go there is another incredible view of another incredible place. Along with it come hundreds and thousands of other tourists each day. It’s kind of funny that I think of myself a little bit above the other tourists. Maybe because I’ve been here so long, and I’ll be here a while longer, but it was different for Český Krumlov, because I was only there for three days, really two. I was there just as short as most of its visitors, yet, we knew the whole town. It took about 8 minutes to get from one side of the town to the other. From the top of the castle tower seen here, I could see the chapel we hiked to on the other side of the town on a hill just the day before in about 25 minutes.

So while we were there only shortly, it felt like we were almost long term residents because it was so small and we knew it so well. Český Krumlov is not a town for locals. Hardly any Czech natives live in the town anymore. It is so cute and small and beautiful that it is meant pretty much only to appease tourists. Most Czech’s can’t afford to live there any more. I’m not outraged though, if you wanted to live in a fairytale town like that for your whole life, maybe that’s understandable for you to be angry, but I don’t know many people who could handle that, and it’s such a small town. I saw our first tour guide three more times just walking around Český Krumlov in the 48 hours we were there.