India, Aug. 31 -- During the pandemic, I binge-watched Blown Away, Netflix's glassblowing competition series, and found myself asking the same question every episode: how difficult could it really be? Years later, standing on a road winding out of Prague (prague.eu) towards Czechia's famed Crystal Valley (crystalvalley.cz), I was finally about to find out.

Czechia's Crystal Valley A garden of hand-blown glass sculptures at Czechia's Crystal Valley reflects the centuries-old Bohemian glassmaking tradition recognised as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2023 (Photo Credit: Ketki Gadre) As I set out on a 100-minute journey to Crystal Valley, curiosity got the better of me. Somewhere along the drive, I found myself Goo...