December 17, 2005

I have to apologise because the photo Christmas Old Town Square was from the last year. For my last walk I took my camera with me and in next few articles you can see real atmosphere of Prague Christmas in December 2005. The first is Christmas tree in lower end of the Wenceslas Square which took this year...  

In one of my posts back in October, I wrote that customers are presumed thieves in the Czech Republic. Now I know why. According to the Czech daily MF DNES, the guards at an average hypermarket (a large supermarket) catch thieves trying to steal products worth a total of 300,000 - 500,000 CZK (roughly 10...  

This is a view of the Prague Castle from a hill called Petrin, on the west side of the city. Prague hasn't really had much snow yet, but it can be an absolute fair tale city in the snow. The sounds of the deep snowy city are incredibly muted and walking around in it is quite fun. I am off to Australia on Monday, to a warm 30 degrees (Celsius) from a frigid 30 degrees (Fahrenheit).  

Millions of people visit this city each year. Most of them probably enjoy the experience. I'm sure many don't. I'd say very few truly understand it. Prague is not a city that can be understood unless you've lived there. So much of the feeling of the city is garnered from the experience one has when interacting with its citizens. If a tourist rolls into the city one morning by train and tromps around for 3 or 4 days, it simply isn't enough to do the ...