October 26, 2006

This is, I believe, the very best way of getting from the airport to your hotel and vice-versa. The Shuttle (NOT to be confused with a number of recently arrived imitators with "similar' names" offers a truly excellent service that I have used many times when visiting Prague. The drivers are all English...  

Here’s my discovery of the day: It is not Czech! It really wasn’t making any sense to me. Whenever I’ve watched a Borat episode on HBO, I’ve wondered why Sacha Cohen’s Kazakh character greets the viewers with the very Czech sounding Jagshemash. What does Kazakhstan have to do...  

Good news for the fans of The Prodigy! The tickets for the festival of electric music Electronic Beats, where also The Prodigy will perform, are sold out, but the organizers promise to sell at least two hundred tickets more at the entrance before the concerts starts.  

Prague street Na Prikope near Wenceslas Square is the most expensive shopping street not only in Prague but also in the Czech Republic. For one square metr you have to pay 57 000 CZK, which is about 2000 euros.  

From 1st January only two basic tours will be available. The bigger one will offer Old Royal Palace including the exhibition “The Story of Prague Castle”, Prague Castle Picture Gallery, St. George’s Basilica and Golden Lane with Daliborka Tower.  

Sabina Slonková has another scoop today, and a pretty big one. First, a bit of backstory: The Czech parliament is in deadlock, with both leftist and right-of-center coalitions even with 100 votes each. But yesterday one MP, Michal Pohanka, decided to leave the Social Democrats, which leave them one vote...  

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