Tourist

This is a quick tourist guide to Prague, for people waiting for a STO ZVIRAT concert:

Czech history:

You properly have to be Czech to understand.

However in short: They have been beaten by most major powers in the region. This thought them to make good food and beer - Like Belgians and Danes But unlike the Poles, who are the real heroes, but their food and beer…..

What to see and what not

You can choose to walk from Muzeum to Mala Strana (It’s from Lucerna Music bar to Malostranská Beseda) and back 6 times a day enjoying the sound of your native language at all times, looking at the same shops as in all other cities in Europe and eating the same food as everywhere. You could also choose to stay home, but when you have arrived, it is too late. If you can’t get home the same day, here is what you might do:
Get a “sedm denni prestupni jidenka” which is a 7-day transfer ticket for all metro, tram and buses. Get it validated in a machine on the way down the Metro. Get off at Mustek – well it was properly where you got on, but then get off at Muzeum. Go to the bookshop on the corner of Vaclavske namesti and Vodickova and get a book in English by a Czech author. Look for “K” like in Kafka, Klima, Kundera or even better Kohout. Or maybe Hrabal, or Skvorecky or even Capek. Hasek’s Svejk can you buy the day you leave.

Go down in the Metro again and take the yellow line “C” to Luzny.

Follow the tube back to the lake. Sit down and start to read. If it’s too wet stay under the tube and if it’s too cold stay inside the station. When time is standing still, you’ll be ready for Prague.

Try to get lost in Zizkov.
Visit Jan Palach’s grave at the Olsanske Cemtery and spend time getting lost in the eastern (old) part of it.
That is near the Flora Metrostation.
( Jan Palach’s is a national hero. He was a young student who set fire to himself as a protest to Soviet invasion of his country. The rulers said that he was crazy. In the beginning of the 21st century some did the same, and they was also labelled crazy by the current rulers)
If you really want to look down at the Czechs - like a real westerner with too many € or as in a zoo with hundred wild animals – you can go to the Vysehrad Metro station, go back on the Nusle bridge and look down. If that is too boring try crossing the highway on the bridge. It beats bungijumping from the bridge.

What to eat and drink and why not

  • Avoid tap water
  • International restaurants
  • McDonalds burgers ( but visit them anyway, because they have free maps of Prague)
  • The worst looking food at Hlavni Nadrazi.