Czech Republic
Travel Blogs from Czech Republic
Czech, mate
For Photos Please Visit: http://www.travelpod.com/members/rbruce And we climbed and dropped into Czech Republic. First impression: Did that sign say Czech or Vietnam? ... Each country has its visible minority immigrants, and for Czech it was quite ...
Prague!
... climbing up to the palace and back (on a mountainous hill on the other side of the river) is hard work we are bot really enjoying it. Tonight we're off for a celebratory meal and some traditional Czech cuisine. See you in Vienna, Richard and ...
Week 7. Stories of sadness and courage.
... reports about the incredible conditions Jews lived in, with parks, cafes, music, concerts... A great deal of artists, Jewish, Czech, everything, were sent here and they had some relative freedom to work on their works, especially musicals ...
Bohemia
... over the Vltava river with a view of a 900 year old cobble stone bridge, once used by the King's horses, we paid 1200 Czech Crowns, or about eight dollars. Apart from Fiona and Ashley the hostel had only a few other guests. One was teaching English in ...
Karlovy Vary
The first city I actually was able to visit, in Czech Republic, was Karlovy Vary. Karlovy Vary is known as Karlsbad to Germans and Carlsbad to the English. The literal meaning of Karlovy Vary is "Charles' Spring." The city is ...
Prague...rough halfway point of the tour
Used up an Austrian phonecard we had before we crossed the border into Czech. Was good to hear my mummabears voice, even though it was only briefly. Prague it is then, and the rough halfway point of the tour. It took us an amazingly long 6 ...
The city that produces one of the best beers.
I had decided to take a break from Prague for a while and moved to a city in the Czech Republic that was not to far from the capital and not so busy. this city was Plzen. It is a small city km from the German border and a different atmosphere compared to ...
A New Country: Czech Republic
... It was a bit frustrating, but that is just how it goes when you don't have a car at your luxury. We made it to the Czech Republic and are enjoying the inexpensive side of things. We had a great dinner for very cheap and roamed around the streets of this ...
Prague day 2 Room 2
We got moved into our new room and thought all was well until we got home from the clubs and could not open our door to our room, the second time in two nights. The lobby said that maintenance had gone home and told us to pound sand until 7 ...
Practically Perfect
Nathan here: So the Czech Republic was our next stop after Vienna. Initially, we had planned to focus our stay around Prague. However, some friends we met in Nepal encouraged us to look into visiting Ceský Krumlov, which guide books have described as ...
pure love.
... my god, the most beautiful countryside in the entire world. i've made quite a few friends along the way, meeting people from austria and czech to france, italy, persia, and all over the US. the only thing that kind of sucks is that since we are on a ...
Anti-Nationalism
The nationalism is something I really can't stand on this trip. There was a world map in the hostel in Prague. Across most of Canada someone scribbled something about how Canadians need to stop pasting flags all over their stuff because after all, "their ...
Czech it out
Exactly a week into my trip, I took a 4 hour train ride from Berlin to Prague. Unfortunately, Prague has become very touristy over the past few years. Its full of Spanish people and Koreans (thanks to a Korean drama filmed there a couple years ...
Out of the city
... breath of fresh air after being in the streets of Prague, which are crawling with tourists. I saw the oldest Cathedral in the Czech Republic, a chrurch decorated with the bones of an estimated 40,000 skeletons, and a lot of other neat little things on the ...
Creepy Bone Crypt
We went on a daytrip to a ossuary about 1 hour outside of Phana (Prague). An ossuary is a bone crypt. This one is one of the biggest in Europe, 40,000 skeletons stacked in ornate patterns. 4 large pyramids, a chandelier and strings of ...
Prague
Hi babe, it's me ya boy Ry Ry. Well, I hate being away from you. Since you told me you have added on to our travel blog last night, I decided to write ya a lil sumthin'. I hope you took the words to "Faithfully" to heart ( in case anyone didn't ...
Here are some long awaited photos!
I hope that you enjoy seeing a breif selection of some photos of our trip from Denmark till now. Rachel and Kristin .....oops sorry we can't upload the photos here. We have some amazing ones to show you so you will just ahve to be patient. We will ...
Prague
So here we are in Prague. We didn't do too much yesterday, just walked around and did some shopping. The Hilton here is amazing, we have the executive lounge access, which gives us completely free breakfast, internet access, snacks, soda and beer. ...
Sick Day
The cold that Kate was fighting off made its way to the other kids, so we thought we should just hang out at the apartment today and rest. The kids did some writing in their diaries, some computer work and computer fun, and rested. I did talk ...
Czech Republic here we come!
... , it was already dark so the Christmas lights made it look very pretty. We went to the old town square and had some Czech food, which mainly consisted of meat. It was very pretty, and very festive with the Christmas market. After dinner we wandered past ...
Czech this out!
... him to speak to Boris to ask how much the beer was and try to figure it out. The thing about Europe, and places like Czech Republic in particular, is they prey on tourists – especially when it comes to money – and even more so when dealing ...
In Prague - Sightseeing after the Wedding
Visiting Prague after the wedding, in between when it rained the glorious sunshine followed us as we walked around the enchanted buildings of Prague, took a horse carriage ride, and walked across the bridge over the River ...
Czech Please
... the Bohemia region of the Czech Republic. Highlights include the Castle, built in the 13th century (and second largest in Czech Republic), torture museum (found it this time, your obsessed) and the beer. God I've been looking forward to Czech beers ...
Tour of old town Prague
Day two. I woke up after sleeping like never before. I don't think I moved. It was 10 am Prague time. We don't make it out of the hotel until around noon, but have tram tickets in hand and are walking to the tram stop by then. I ...
nite nite, sleep tight....
... in Paris, as well as a giant metronome sculpture that doesnt work... but I think that might be more of a memorial thing for the Czech composers instead (Chopin, Dvorak) but the jurys still out on that one. To its credit, it has a cool castle up on a ...

