July 11, 2007

Ok so lets get it over and done with early I love Prague I had been really looking ofrward to these few days and it has lived up to my expectations. I love the interesting history beautiful architecture and of course the foodThe train ride again was quite enjoyable passport control got on quite soon after I...  

Jazz Bridge Festival was held for the first time in the evening before the Czech Republic joined the EU. It became so successful that the festival is held this year for the fourth times, it’s called Jazz Bridge from Prague to EU 2007.  

Travellers in Prague metro may be surprise today to hear different names of metro stations from the loudspeakers. The names of the stations are not chosen haphazardly, they come from the communist times when station were called Moskevska (from Russian city Moscow) – now Andel, Leninova – now Dejvicka, Gottwaldova – now Vysehrad etc.  

Happy Beer Days is a beer and music festival that will present about 40 breweries and more than 130 kinds of beer. 3 stages will offer various kinds of music (theatre, rock and country) performed by more than 61 music bands (mostly Czech).  

In Petrin parks, near the Rose Gardens and the Hunger Wall, there is a famous Stefanik’s Observatory, which was opened in 1928. As already mentioned, this observatory is dedicated to the name of Milan Rastislav Stefanik (you can see his statue in front of the sun dial). This distinguished man, among many...