September Tour News
Hi from Rick: “Underappreciated” Central Europe
I love being inspired by 20th-century European history in my travels. That's why Prague's Wenceslas Square — long the national stage for the history of the Czech people — is a favorite spot for me and our tour guides. This grand boulevard is where jubilant crowds celebrated the birth of Czechoslovakia after World War I, where the Prague Spring briefly blossomed before being crushed by Soviet tanks in 1968, where two college students set themselves on fire to protest the ensuing Communist occupation in 1969, and was the site of the 1989 Czech revolution, when people-power overthrew Soviet control in a transition of power so peaceful it was dubbed the "Velvet Revolution."
When I was in Prague earlier this year, I wandered down Wenceslas Square with a local Czech tour guide. We paused… Read more
