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Prague is emerging from the pandemic with less touristic gimcrackery and more local flavor.

Although the Trans-Siberian Orchestra has lamentably cornered the market on overwrought laser-light-filled musical gimcrackery for the Christmas holiday season, there are more than enough holidays to allow its smaller-scale admirers to try their luck.

It was like a good sanitary cubicle filled with second-hand gimcrackery, but still the same good cubicle, still in essentials exactly like a few thousand more.

The expense, hype and setting couldn’t match Nature’s own spectacle at the main part of the canyon, run by the National Park Service — an immensity that makes all human enterprise seem like petty gimcrackery.

Well, Mrs. Waterlow evidently didn't think it gimcrackery, or, if she did, she didn't mind.