Interesting little article (below). If we weren't so totally up to our ears we would go - though I'd guess all the hotels will be booked anyway by now.
I found the piece about the "deal with the devil" interesting. The Castle has the weirdest atmosphere. One AT (Aeclectic tarot forum -
http://www.tarotforum.net) person told me that she visited, but then ran away in terror. It IS an odd place. If you remember our Five of Swords, there is a strange wall painting from the Castle that we first used in the sketches card (but we left it out of the final - sorry) - it features the Devil. Why was that put high up on the first courtyard I wonder?
Here is the card - now minus the devil:
Here is the devil picture - yes, it really is an original from the renaissance. Very odd isn't it?
Anyway, the festival looks very jolly and quite romantic and not terribly Gothic. This winter, when all the tourists have gone away again, we'll go back to Cesky Krumlov and do some more photography. As it is, half the cards feature parts of the town :-)
http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2004/Art/0617/calen1.php
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