Any excuse is a good excuse to make another visit to Prague, to take another sightseeing tour in the Czech capital. My most recent excuse for a guided tour of selected highlights — and a few things the casual visitor never heard of — was the publication of a book,
The Grandhotel Pupp, in the Czech Republic’s Karlovy Vary, dates to 1701; however, the two main buildings that one sees, and sleeps in, date from the late-19th century heyday of Czech spa towns — and a time when Karlovy Vary was called Carlsbad. The hotel section now referred to as
My recent itinerary to the Czech Republic opened and closed with stays in Prague, in two hotels opened just this spring and located across a tiny square from one another. Further, they are only a couple of blocks from the Powder Gate Tower and a short additional walk away from