When people think of the Czech Republic, Prague is often the first thing that springs to mind. Yet the country’s most beautiful stories are often told outside the cities: in the tranquil forests of the Bohemian Forest, along the Vltava, amongst sandstone cliffs, moorland and old mountain villages, in the beautiful South Moravian valleys with their vineyards and the Moravian Karst. In the Czech Republic, nature is not merely a backdrop – it shapes literature, memory and identity.