What’s hot in Prague
Author: Elda Hamaker
This won’t hurt a bit…
The pain was unbearable. It ripped me straight out of a dream I was having Saturday morning at 4 AM.
I live in a country where the toothpaste is not accepted by the American Dental Association. A country where I have no dental insurance. A country that has no friendly yellow page ads with dancing teeth saying, "Open Saturdays!"
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Prague in June
I sat staring down the barrel of a gun… A street lamp made the interior of the car glow yellow. A face wan and twisted with age, sat riveted. Its sole purpose in life was to avenge the simple tourist. The naive and drunken tourist. And from his appearance he had done just that, many times. There wasn’t going to be any Mr. Nice Guy. All his politeness he had, already shaped in his hand. {loadposition content_adsensecontent} The Whore on my left was busy rummaging through my pockets. She was cursing me with her foul breath, because she could...
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Fondomat.com – Funding your dreams
ThinkExpat’s interview with Joe Wakeford and Conrad Watts, founders of the Czech Republic’s First Crowdfunding Site… Crowdfunding – a simple yet innovative way of using the power of online social networks in order to raise extraordinary amounts of money – is already a spectacular success the world over. This platform is currently being used by the President of the United States, Barack Obama to launch a new age of entrepreneurialism in the United States as one answer to the worldwide economic crisis. Fondomat offers a revolutionary way for charities and individuals to reach donors and manage projects at a...
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The Sultan of Brno
So you’ve been in Golden Praha, how many months? Or years? Decades? And last time you called home the folks still asked you what? “What is life like in chwechoslovaaakia?”
And you said what? That Prague’s like a combination of Boston with the Irish pubs and Atlanta with Byelorussian lawyers ripping their lingerie off, but for a little less money! And what else do these girls do for you? Phooooaaaaagh! No way maaaan! “And did you meet any nice local girls son, I hear these slavish women are beautiful…”
“Well dad, I’ve met Megan, Nancy, Henny, Shannon…”
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