The Czech for please is easy, prosim, the Czech for thank-you seems to elude me: dekuji. Everytime I say it, the word just sounds more and more wrong each time. That first sound d'ye with more emphasis on the ye is so challenging for me, and the storekeepers must scratch their heads wondering what I am saying. But I keep trying, and once in a while it sounds somewhat like it should. Some other Czech words are a bit like Russian so that helps me a little. But it's a tough language for me. Prague is a photogenic city, with lots of spires, ornate building facades, narrow and winding streets and a church on the hill which dominates the skyline. That church is St Vitus church, inside the Prague Castle. The crowds were huge, but I
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