What to do for 4 Days in Prague

Most visitor go to Prague for a long weekend and they want to know the highlights, well this would be my four days in Prague itinerary, assuming we are talking about three nights:

Most tourist arrive in Prague by way of the Prague city airport. There are buses and taxes from the airport into the city - the taxi should cost no more than 30 Euros - if they want more walk to the next one, at the airport there is a huge of choice.

Once you check in at your hotel get a map of the city, most of the hotels give them out for free or a nominal charge. Go walk. Yes, this is what I suggest, get acclimatised to the city, know where your are in relation to all the main areas. Have a walk down through the Old Town, walk around Old Town Square and see the famous Astronomical Clock at the edge of the old Town. Continue from there down toward the Vltava River and walk across Charles Bridge and get great views of Prague Castle. then have a few beers at any Czech Bar and try and stay away from the obviously tourist joins.

Day Two in Prague

Walking is the best way to see Prague, so have comfortable shoes on and get out there. Walk again to Charles Bridge crossing into the Lesser Town area of the city. With the old town behind you, you want to go left after you come off the Bridge and go and see the Infant of Prague it is about ten minutes walk from the Bridge located in the Church of Our Lady Victorious in the Lesser Town also know in Czech as Malá Strana.

After leaving the Church continue walking the same direction with the Castle at your back towards Petrin Hill. The hill is at the top of the park and on the top stands Petrin lookout tower. There is no better place in Prague for views of the whole city and photos of Prague Castle. The hill is served by a frequent funicular and the tower has an elevator for disabled person - the charge for entry is around €3.

From Petrin Tower you can walk through the Park towards Prague Castle, it is an easy and delightful walk taking in views of the Castle and the city below all the way to the castle providing many photo opportunities all the way to the castle.

Wandering around the Castle area and walking down the hill back towards the city will take the rest of the day, so only the even to cover now. Don’t miss the changing of the Guards and the Palace museums.

See Prague Top Ten for the choice in best restaurants in Prague, we list as you would expect ten of them. And then see the same lists for evening entertainment, night clubs, theaters, and classical music.

Day 3 in Prague

The second day would be my day of the main highlights of the city and during the next two days I just give people a list of the best things to go and see, and keep refering them back to the Prague Top Ten as everything is there to make informed choices.

• The Loreto is a Baropue shrine
• Old Jewish Cemetry
• National Gallery
• Wenceslas Square
• National Museum
• Museum of Communism
• Old-New Synagogue
• Wallenstein Garden

Enjoy your stay and stay well.

This city is beautiful and walking is the best way to see it.

Prague in the evening - gives a flavor of the city.

My first reaction is one of complete surprise and wonder how can they be so ignorant, then I think about North America, I don’t know most of their states and I would have no idea what is the capital of any of the states – so I am ignorant in that area.

So here is Prague. It is in the middle left of the Czech Republic and sits across the River Vltava – the largest river in the Czech Republic. Prague is the capital city of the Czech Republic and before the revolution of 1989 it was the capital city of Czechoslovakia, it is also the main city in Bohemia.

Prague has been in the centre of Czech life since the 9^th century. The city is considered one of the most beautiful in Europe and deservedly so. It is also referred to as the “city of a thousand spires” and as the “golden city” – look at the photo on the banner at the top of the page, this show a few of the city’s many spires.

The population of Prague City is around 1.1 million and the population of the Greater Prague area is 1.9 million. Prague is a modern bustling city with all modern conveniences similar to any capital city the world over.

The four countries the border the Czech Republic are Germany to the West, Poland to the North, Slovak to the East, and Austria to the South. There are good road and rail links from Prague to any of these countries and due to the Czech Republic being part of the European Union, (since 2004), there are no border checks between these countries.

If you are visiting Prague four days is the minimum required to get a good feel for the city. Charles Bridge is one of the main sites and thankfully cannot be avoided. Prague Castle is a must on anyone’s tour list and really requires at least half a day to be put aside to walk around the area – though you could easily spend a full day at the castle.

Prague can be a crowded tourist centre during the months of June, July, and August and though there are many hotels in the city it can still get hard to find a good Prague Hotel. Therefore if you are planning to visit at this time book well in advance.

The weather in Prague has four distinct seasons. Summer can be very hot, above thirty degrees, the winter can be very cold, minus ten often – therefore dress for the weather. Prague is not as cheap a destination as it was during the 1990’s, the standard of living for Praguers has increased tenfold during the last 15 years – however compared to visiting Dublin, London, or Paris, great bargain are still to be found.

However Aerlingus gave us vouchers for food - good… And I get to sit here in Starbucks and chill for a few hours - still it is hard to get passed the bordom. So here I am writing and hoping that no-one reaaly reads this.

Walking in Europe is a new site that I am developing, and much to my surprise it still hasn’t been indexed by the big G after a month - I should really have put a bit more effort into that, so hopefully this post will help the big G find it at last.

Dublin Airport is fairly horrible, in a few hours we will be in Prague - and what a difference there is in the airport. Prague is just so … clean, not so packed, much easier to be in - also I can still smoke there. Yeah one day I might get around to not doing that anymore.

So hope some of this made some sense - I have only had one xanex so far - yeah hate flying also…

Have a good weekend.

Czechs stay in their motherland because of rising living standards and wages, because they fear difficulties they could face while searching for a job abroad, owing to their poor knowledge of languages and the anticipated necessity to accept menial work in a foreign country.

Those leaving to work abroad are in particular people roughly 30 years old, mostly men with university or at least secondary-school education. This group accounts for about two-thirds of Czech labour migrants.

Czechs heading for foreign countries count on having completely different occupations than they are trained or educated for. Those working in the same profession make up 37.7 percent, and they mostly are older experienced workers or extremely talented young people.

The fundamental reason for Czechs to work abroad is without any doubt a higher wage, the study says. Czechs prefer making money abroad for a few years and then returning to the Czech Republic with their savings. Such practice increases their price on the labour market because they speak foreign languages.

The government-proposed bill successfully passed only through the first reading and is furter strongly opposed by the leftist opposition and labour unions.

The lower house is to take its definitive vote on the bill by June. The upper house is to deal with it in the autumn. If passed by both houses of parliament, the bill would yet to be signed into law by President Vaclav Klaus. The law would take effect as from 2010.

The retirement age in the Czech Republic has been gradually raised since the mid-1990s. Under the current law, it is to stop at 63. At present men retire at the age of about 61, childless women at the age of 60 and mothers earlier, according to the number of children.

The centre-right government of the ODS, the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) and the Greens has divided the pension reform into three stages that should be completed by the 2010 general election.

The first stage is based on the bill that the Chamber approved today. The second stage would concern changes in optional pension insurance and the third would introduce the possibility of saving in funds, on the basis of individual pension accounts.

The government coalition and opposition were to reach agreement on the pension reforms by last Christmas, but the negotiations practically collapsed.

(Czech News Agency)

Addressing the rally in front of the embassy, the organisers recalled that in 2001, when China was chosen as the 2008 Olympics venue, it pledged to improve the situation in the human rights area. This has not happened, however, AI members said.

In a separate action in protest against the situation in Tibet, the Czech Greens, a junior ruling party, put out the Tibetan flag in the window of their room in the lower house.

According to the Lungta association, a total of 348 town halls across the Czech Republic hoisted Tibetan flags yesterday.

“I will not disclose the date. Now we have a sort of Christmas fast for major political decisions. I think you will learn more after Easter,” Vondra said, adding that the Czech Republic was realistic when it comes to Kosovo’s recognition.

Kosovo unilaterally declared independence from Serbia on February 17.

It has been recognised by 16 EU members as well as the USA, while Spain, Cyprus, Greece, Russia, China and Slovakia are opposed to the idea as they face problems with ethnic minorities.

The divisive issue has brought about a recent fall of the Serbian governing coalition. There will be early elections in Serbia on May 11.

Vondra told journalists changes in the Cuban leadership, from which Fidel Castro recently stepped down, required a measured reaction by the EU.

“I would not spend all the ammunition at the very beginning,” Vondra said in reaction to the statement by Louis Michel, European Commissioner for development and humanitarian aid, that the EU should lift its sanctions on Cuba.

The EU should continually modify its policies towards Havana and if the EU takes some obliging step, it should wait on how Cuba will react to it, Vondra said.

The EU imposed diplomatic sanctions on Cuba after the Cuban authorities sentenced about 70 dissidents to long prison terms in 2003.

(Czech News Agency)