Estate Theatre

The Dancing City

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January 20th 2008
The time: 12:30 a.m. The date: the first day of January, 2008. The locals, rather than the tourists (for once) crowd the streets, with many fireworks in one hand, and bottles of champagne in the other. Used mortar tubes litter the streets and the bridges. Every few steps we hear another explosion. This is Prague (Praha in Czech). Prague was the destination for the 2nd part of the trip. At ... read more

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Following the First World War, the closely related Czechs and Slovaks of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire merged to form Czechoslovakia. During the interwar years, the new country's leaders were frequently preoccupied with meeting the demands of ot... ... read more