Category: Outside Prague

When Token Czech Friend, Tour Guide and Interpreter Jana told her mother that she was taking...

There are three things to look for in a guide to spontaneous weekend travel when visiting Prague’s little neighbor – the Bohemian mining town of Kutná Hora:

1. Amusement

2. Entertainment

3. The ephemeral “spirit” of the place

The fourth thing would be, maybe, a map.

6:00 pm, Saturday, Starbucks

Nursing the worst hangover in town, when a sudden jolt of caffeine reminds me: shit, December issue. I need to go somewhere, anywhere. Fast.

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…”

The answer, my friends, is blowin’ through the villages – and old rivers winding through these historical settlements do, indeed carry the news and the blues…

Had enough of clubbing and frying your brain with narcotics? Want to be way-out of town when the stag parties start rolling into Prague?

Grab your 3-D Specs boyz and grrlz…

Think Magazine suggests you take advantage of this frickin’ freeze engulfing us by heading out to one of many of the Czech winter wonderlands. But don’t forget to bring a butt pad!

As you asked in your last issue (Letters 44), I won’t waste any Bohemian forests by tempting you with any new Celtic literary masterpieces from the ancient Moravian empire!

Let’s go there, I don’t know where…

An investigation of the holocaust leads inevitably to the question of “how?”

While film festivals in Asia are much closer, in quite peaceful Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic, the stars are more themselves and laid back. Luke Salkeld explains why.