Old world streetscapes, taverns, towers, and tourists
weekending in Prague
October 12th 2008 Sunday morning, sitting on the bus heading from the hotel into the city centre we are quite excited at the prospect of spending the next two days exploring the Czech capital. We arrived last night but the fog was so thick that our first glimpse of the Czech republic was about 2 seconds before we landed in it. Even then, we weren’t too sure that we had even arrived at an airport (we certainly c
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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 
