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- Prague
- Capital
- Czech Koruna (CZK)
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- 10,264,212
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Prague Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Prague, Czech Republic
OUR FIRST LOOK AT PRAGUE
... her and got to sing happy birthday. It sounded like a wonderful time for her with family and friends. We are touring Prague today. Since this wasn’t on our to do list we are winging it. We catch the #17 tram into town along ...
My first time snowboarding
... from residence (Aly from Toronto, Vincent from Montreal, and Bex from New Zealand) and one of my Czech friends, Vera. The resort is about 2.5 hours Northwest of Prague. We left at 6:30am on Saturday morning to take a tram to the car rental agency in ...
Prague not quite the same
... masses of tourist souvenir shops with quite overpriced things, I think I will wait for Cesky Krumlov before I purchase anything in the Czech Republic. I head back to the Youth Hostel and see if anyone has joined me in my room. I feel a bit lonely ...
Prague
... . Later that night I went to dinner with the Florence for Fun group at the oldest brewery in Prague. There I was entertained with musicians while tasting Czech beer and cuisine. It was an experience, to say the least. The next ...
Fun at a Czech Hospital!
After 3 months of mundane education in the Czech Republic, I decided to learn more about the Czech health care system and accordingly checked myself into Facultni Nemocnice Motol (a Czech hospital) for a week. I have compiled a list of retrospectively ...
Prague
... of Karlstejn. In actual fact, it was that of a crocodile! (Ha! I could've been a knight!) The train ride back to Prague awaited. It was different because there was an old steam-engine to pull the usual string of passenger-cars. (We thought, how ...
Three days in Prague
We spent a total of three days in Prague. I'm writing this almost a week later because we simply didn't get a chance to update our trip details earlier. I had been to Prague before so I was somewhat used to it and I even remembered a lot. We didn't ...
Breakdown in Prague
... Berlin photos. We also had a great map program but it was only of Western Europe and we are almost done there. Other than that Prague was okay but not great. It was rainy and had the usual throngs of sightseers. We walked around the old town a bit. ...
Girls trip to Prague
... We also visited the St. Barbara Cathedral and the Church of the Ascension with its strange ossuary decorated with bones. In Prague there are lots of opportunities to attend concerts in the evenings at many of the churches and concert halls. We ...
Prague
First job today was to pack up all my winter clothes and my new stein and ship everything home. My backpack is so much lighter now! After the post office I got a little lost, had a sushi snack and then found the river and made my way to the castle. ...
Days 34-37
... , it was closed for repairs, so we had to climb up all the way to the tower. Later on we went to the Prague Castle, amazingly beautiful. - At night we had dinner in a bowling alley close to Sir Toby's together with Summer and Brooke. Day ...
The Hidden Jewels of Prague
... Municipal House include an elegant French restaurant, a Czech beer hall style restaurant, the first American bar in the Czech Republic and several music salons. This building still oozes Czech nationalism and pride of the local artists and craftsmen ...
My new home city.
... transportation system here with metros and trams. I am really enjoying the restaurants here in Prague. Although I'm not crazy about the typical Czech cuisine of goulash and cooked game, I do like most of the restaurants ...
Czech sausage and a club called Stonx
... we put together.... though of course I desperately missed her mashed potates and gravey! Spent the next few days exploring more of Prague, including exotic destinations such as 'H and M', 'Mexx', and the cinema to see King King and Harry Potter! No, ...
A triumphant return to our homeland
... at the shops and old-fashioned cobblestone streets and even managed to walk down the narrowest street in the entire Czech Republic! Our next stop was Prague. As we drove past huge fields of sunflowers it was hard to believe we were approaching a ...
Prague 2.0 & WCs, toilettes, ligne...the Bathrooms
... the 8th Century had been murdered by his brother who was not a fan of the church and has become the patron saint of the Czech Republic. Jan would lead us around for another 4 hour walkabout. We didn’t get a lot of photos this afternoon as it ...
Locals, ska music, beer gardens, and foos ball!
... is a unbelievable place. We met two local Czechs that were our age and which could speak ok English. We learned a lot about the Czech Republic and was offered to go with them to the local's evening hangout. We spent the evening in the huge beer garden ...
Prague to Copenhagen in an hour!
... close to our next two destinations of Amsterdam and Frankfurt (for our RyanAir flight to Rome next Wednesday night). We leave from Prague airport tomorrow night via Smart Wings, let's hope they are Smart and we land in two pieces, yes.. Marc and I. We ...
Touring Prague
Hello all: Today's alarm went off at the early hour of 5:00am, out of the hotel by 5:30am so we could capture Prague at its quietest moments, and we were successful. The streets were empty until around 10am on Sunday's, because of the all night ...
Suck the money right out of you these people.
... for any other city. We spent the day buying souveniers and touring some sites. The language barrier was a little more prevalent in Prague than the other places we went. We went to the oldest Jewish synagogue in Europe by paying a hefty fee. We saw ...
The anti-climax of seeing Prague
... matter where you go, always tend to be the same; we left behind a few irish guys, who were good criac. On our way to Prague, we stopped at Vienna for one night. It was really, really hot - 35 degrees in fact. Ive never associated Vienna with being such a ...
My Adventures In The Petron Hills
... Hills (also happens to be the name of the part of the city I am staying at) and was built in 1891 for the Prague Industrial Exhibition - And also, as an imitation of the Eiffel Tower....Hence the nickname: "The Paris of the East". The tower itself is ...
Day 320 - Palette of Prague
... and quiet parks, life here is a portrait of modern still art. So we soak it all in, the vibrant colors of Prague’s palette, not letting one moment slip by neglected or unnoticed. And when the day is through and the city comes alive with ...
Prague
... that flock to Prague in the summer I guess we added to that but its just to busy you cant move!! Our last day in the Czech Republic we decided to take a day trip wth Jo (New Zealander we met in Prague) to a small but extremely gorgeous town called ...
Cocktails and bones
... wasn't until 13.10. Oh well. Back in town I wanted to cram as much sightseeing in as I could... so I headed to the Prague Palace and St Vitus Cathedral. The Palace was quite pretty but it's hard to get excited about buildings at this satge of my ...
Prague the land of many mysteries
... watching France (shit yeah), Portugal (fuck yeah) and Germany (Decent), advance to the semi finals of the World Cup! The Prague Castle wasn't anything much, and you had to pay for everything inside, even taking photos cost 30k! bitches... it wasn't much ...
Prague
... tour was great because we got to hit all the top spots of the city without walking our legs off. One interesting thing about Prague...Hitler wanted to protect this beautiful city, even the Jewish Quarter. So, he did not bomb it and protected the city ...
Prague
... us watching him. He bolted to his car and locked it up so tight that later one of his car mates had serious trouble getting in! Prague is amazingly beautiful and historic, yet we didnt really like it that much. I guess its been built up too much and it ...