About Reality and Beyond
Lucy Abel Smith
Director and founder of Reality and Beyond Ltd, Lucy has been planning tours and leading independent travellers all over the world for art organisations and museum groups for the last thirty years. She worked for a leading specialist travel company ending up as chairman until she left to write the first authoritative guide to Prague after the Velvet Revolution published by John Murray. Since then she has been a consultant and guest lecturer for the Art Fund, the British Museum Society, the Friends of the Royal Academy and the Victoria and Albert Museum, as well as Smith College Alumni and Venetian Heritage and has been a consultant to Sotheby's, creating a range of visits for connoisseurs to private palaces, houses and collections throughout Europe.
Please click here to read more about Lucy Abel Smith's background in art history and the beliefs of Reality and Beyond.
Harriet Landseer
Harriet has lived in Prague on and off for the last 20 years, since moving there after graduating in art history from Yale.
She specialises in the heritage and art of the Czech Republic and Central Europe, and has been accompanying and leading tours for museums and heritage associations in the UK and USA for over 17 years, mostly with Specialtours Ltd. Clients include the Irish Georgian Society, Europa Nostra and the American Horticultural Society. She speaks fluent Czech, as well as German, Spanish & French. She also works as a consultant to the National Heritage Institute, and in 2009 completed the English version of their mammoth book, Castles, Country Houses and other Monuments. She is currently finishing a book on Slow Travel in the Czech countryside.
