Prague

[Echewta]

Good Day My Euro chums,

I might be going to Prague for a few days next week. If I were to do so, can anyone recommend things to do, places to go, etc.? Would you happen to know where a day long train ride could get me?

Thank you kindly,

Echewta

[saz]

there's no fundip nor taco bell drive thru's in prague.

[Echewta]

Snap! I'll have to pack my own.

[kaiser soze]

The best place for a hot date! (http://www.artgraphica.net/art-shop/prague-kutna-hora-bone-church.htm)

[jennyb]

I'm off to Deutschland Saturday WOO! (y)

[Drederick Tatum]

Good Day My Euro chums,

I might be going to Prague for a few days next week. If I were to do so, can anyone recommend things to do, places to go, etc.? Would you happen to know where a day long train ride could get me?

Thank you kindly,

Echewta

in Prague to get away from the tourists you should climb Vitkov Hill and check out the Jan Zizka monument. (http://www.lexikonhospod.cz/gal/gal003.JPG) largest equestrian statue in the world. it's pretty nuts. there's also, of course, the Old Town Square, Hradcany castle and the Charles Bridge. visit the bridge at night.

in terms of train rides, within a day's journey you've got Berlin, Dresden, Vienna, Munich, Budapest, Nuremberg, Bratislava...it's central Europe, you're close to everything.

[Kid Presentable]

Go to the Prague metronome.

[rirv]

As capital cities go, Prague is pretty small. There isn't a whole amount to do aside from the tourist spots and drink the beer. A tourist guide will show you a lot. My brother is living and working in Prague at the moment I could ask him for some off-the-beaten track suggestions perhaps.

As for train rides out the trains are super cheap and are usually on time and regular - though slow - and are an experience in themselves. They're starting to bring in new trains but many of the services still run on the old Soviet-era trains with compartments rather than open carriages. A nice place to visit for a day would be Karlovy Vary, aka Carlsbad or Ceske Budejovice, aka Budweis. Both are within 100 miles of Prague and are picturesque Bohemian towns. A bit further away in the Moravian region is Olomouc which is quite tourist free but a lovely place, maybe too far for one day.

When are you planning on going? Weather might influence what you do. It can snow quite heavily in February, although I believe at the moment it's quite dry. Also there may well be some festivals on at certain times which could offer some more stuff.

Enjoy your trip.

[Pres Zount]

Isn't Prague where they do the downhill-urban BMX racing?

[MC Moot]

Good friends were there this summer the Museum of Communism looked like a real trip...

[Echewta]

Thanks all for the tips. Yea Rirv, if you could ask, that would be appreciated. The train rides sound like the way to go.

I'm thinking of going next Friday, 16th.

I don't know any czech but I'm going to crash course. How English friendly are they?

[jabumbo]

you should go and visit randy. she needs some new visitors

[MC Moot]

I don't know any czech but I'm going to crash course. How English friendly are they?

my friends said that there was no trouble at all with regards to speaking English,everyone they dealt with in the service/hospitality industry had passable if not fairly fluent english...as a matter of fact they only had one hard time with a little old man who wanted to show them to the Lennon wall and things got confused...did you know that Prague is home to the largest castle in the world?...I didn't know that until they went...and from the picts they shot,that city looks absolutely incredibly lit at night...(y)

[Lyman Zerga]

you should go and visit randy. she needs some new visitors

i rather stay alone for the rest of my life and death

[b-grrrlie]

A friend of a friend of a friend went to Prague last spring and made a My Space blog (http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=112247788&blogID=361227816&Mytoken=D895EC24-66E0-4807-828FD984F76DD4FF257391225) about it. There's some good places mentioned...
Here's a google translation... with some corrections....
GUIDE TO THE ULTIMATE PUB-crawl


Since I would let the people think that I am busy oneself with the international practice and general writings I appoint myself this morning to CICERONE and guide - and then I just come home from having strolled around and "worked" in Prague, it is where we begin this day . I am beginning to know the city a little too detailed at this point, and because it is a combination of traps and finding you can, thanks to signed avoid ruling biggest blows if you decide to take the ultimate pubround - for it is just to take in just this city. Just hold my hand and I'll ensure that you are going right.

Prague both open and close early, so you can be up with cocks and start with a breakfast in Obecni Dum (Medborgarhuset, Nam Republiky) - one of the world's most beautiful buildings, exterior, especially inside. Relatively expensive, but it is worth it - and it is in Prague, so it is likförbannat cheaper than a visit to Nilsson CAFE in Hoting. Frukostera among gold leaf and crystal chandeliers as large outdoor toilet in this Art Nouveau palace, you get an excellent start in the tough days you have before you.

After this stroll through the gunpowder tower and into Celetna street. On the left side you will find the Black Madonna kubist house, on the right side of the number 11 is Ambiente - one of Old Town's few decent eateries. We'll skip those now. When the street ends is the mighty Tyn Church on the right. Keep to the left of the square, check out the strange astronomical watch and notice how low it is. Go around the block until you come to U Radnice. There, we stop number one on pubround. U katu - in sharp right successor. Get yourself a bucketfull of an excellent pint of Urquell and check out all the stories on the walls of Prague's executioners before you crawl on.

Walk one block on Linharska street. Look up on the roof of Klementinum House and consider all the statues that are "left over". They are many. Merge onto Husova street. On the right side is U Zlateho Tygra (Golden Tiger), which is in all tourist guides. Although a great place, but where can you not enter, for the second, have they not open and do they prefer to avoid tourists - which may have some respect for. Bill Clinton has in any case been rigorously on drunk in this room. Turn left, go Skorepka street up and put on Uhelny TRH. Locate the large Urquell neon sign and twigs into U Dvou Kocek (the two cats).

Sit at one of the first table to the right so you can skip the umpa music from the restaurant section. If there's already people sitting at the tables just ask if it is ok to you park your ass there. It is always here. Now you can test the charming dining system. Add just a beer coaster in front of you so you will see that it will Pilsner automatically. When it finishes there is a new without you even need to say. It needs only you do when you do not want more and wish to pay. Amazingly smooth and convenient. At this place happening parts of the film with the smooth name VRCHNI, PRCHNI. It is a FUNNY roll on a fake fake-waiter. This place is, like many other ALEHOUSE here, so old that Bellman had been able to hang here. The fact is that Carl-Michael very well could be carried out major parts of this round is already in its time.

Well, you fall out of Dom two cats and up Perlova street. Even after a neighborhood begins clamoring for attention bladder. You can take the opportunity to look into a classic. TROT in to Jungmannova Nam and visit the U Pinkasu. Make sure you get seats in the first room to the right, which is the classic beer house. Has lost the world's first pilsner up, and it is still world class. In my world, there is only one place (well maybe two) that spanks U Pinkasu of the fingers, but was just calm - they get to us.

Go out from the U Pinkasu. Turn right. Think of the world's only cubist lamp. Go straight ahead, through Bata-house and out on Wenceslas Square. Cast an eye a bit up on the boulevard opposite side and consider the extremely beautiful Hotel Evropa. Walk up the Wenceslas Square and turn right into Vodickova street. After a few hundred meters is Branicky Sklipek in number 26 on the left side. Go into the right entrance and find you in a classic Czech worn out battle-at-Lützen-smoky pivnice. Order a Branik twelve percent hop strength a 'seven bucks and enjoy the standing. Dom nearest stop making them a bit more down-to-earth so to speak. Branik beer can be found not often in barrels in Prague now. Too bad, because it is an absolutely regular beer.

Now it will be both fryntligt and pee-needy, so it fits that of just a few blocks to the next joint. I myself am dandyish enough to take shortcuts through the passages, but you may go through Palackého Street, right on Jungmannova and into Charvatova-street on the left hand. The number 1 is a small place with barely visible, but the units Jelinkova Pivnice, is a chronically filled with holes in the wall and serves the world's non-competitive best beer. Has the man behind the tap large mustache so he called Bohuslav, a nice type who is known as the country's best Beer Tap. Often, he is out on tour, but when he is home, he has this place. Only the best is good enough for Bohuslav, so here it is Urquell and nothing else applies. Better beer is here you can find nowhere in the universe if you ask me - as an opportunity for lowering two. Dom's not loose on more than ten pieces, so hell ...

Blessed by Bohuslav Pilsner we float past the Tesco, department store and left into the Spalena Street, when Karl Square appear in front of you takes you right into Odboru street. On the left side is Karluv Sklep

- One of my regular joints in Prague. Take a Gambrinus and their good garlic soup with cumin beans light lunch. Eating properly makes you later.

My across the street from Karluv Sklep is MAT Studios. This has sometimes chance to see the English-subtitled Czech film. You can take the opportunity to rent the movie I mentioned in the text. Take in an excellent and sensational Berhard cheap beer while you look through their catalogs and choose among more or less bizarre film. Then, we proceed. Right out of the cinema cafe, over Myslikova street and into Kremencova street. Focus on the clock.

Now it go away, for now you SQUISH in to one of Prague's worst tourist traps:

http://ufleku.cz/ "> U Fleku is actually a pretty disgusting by Ompa-German beer hall of gigantic proportions. Go into the first room to the left, it tends to be calm. Here, you just a taste of beer, nothing else. There is only one place, it is dark and are made on site. Olette and instead have been around since the late 1400's. Now it is taken from a German nightmare. Do NOT mistake to take snaps of Becherovka-makers which the waiters "offers" on. They land on the bill directly and are expensive, but as I said, the beer is worth trying - but then you only need to draw on, and it continues.

Back on Myslikovagatan. Turn right. On the left side you will find U Bubenicku in number 8. Test Becherovkan here instead. It tastes as much pepper cake for one quarter of the price of a place like this standard-Czech HAK. Take a tankard of their dark Kozel beer to this. Exhale after tourist schock at U Fleku. Now you will certainly be hungry, and we shall soon remedy and improvement on.

Continue down Myslikova. On the left side you see them freak "dancing houses",

or Fred & Ginger as they are called. Just before you slip the left onto Gorazdova street and go in a couple of blocks. Soon turn up a sign with a fish on. It is the entrance to the Na Rybarna, or restaurant fish. Here you can rest your legs and finish the evening with a good dinner. Previously, it was one of very few places in Prague that served fish, hence the name. Václav Havel lived in a TWO-ROOM FLAT same house and had it as ordinary restaurant. It is said that the only excess he presented to the after he became president was to allow construction of an elevator directly down to the pub. The I never managed to locate, but there is picture evidence of President Havel's curvature with Keith Richards on the spot. Here you can get a decent dinner and even more Urquell beer. Then you can probably no more that evening.

Well, you stick to this little cyber-guided tour so you can correct pubrunda in Prague without too much tourist-YAP, yelling Brat-gang and drop of bladder waiters.

In particular, the clinical exempt from WATERY Staropramen beer - just the right thing ...

[Echewta]

Sweet info B-grrrrrrrrrrlllie! Thanks!