Business Traveller

It was a very quick in-and-out type visit, but I have to say that Prague is on my list of places I’d love to go back to and see more of.

After arriving at 10, I checked into my hotel (The Courtyard Marriot), but I got the wrong one. Apparently there is one in the city centre, and one on the outskirts – wouldn’t you know it – I was on the outskirts. Fortunately taxis ar cheap, and I was in the main square looking for dinner before you could say “Thank god the taxis here aren’t trabents!” (Trabants were made from paper mache, and had a nasty habit of blowing up for no reason…)

Traditional cuisine in Prague appears to be Pizza served with ketchup, but if you do a bit of looking, you can find some very trendy and good restaurants. The waiters manage to make Parisian waiters look polite and responsive, but hey – at least you don’t get dragged off to a Gulag for tipping badly!

Doing the midnight sightseeing was the usual ex-soviet-block game of dodging the prostitutes, who were even more persistent than their colleagues in Budapest, although not quite as pretty.

Rather than bore you with the photo I took of the famous bridge (as featured in XXX and Mission impossible), I thought I’d show you the bar that was 20 meters from the bridge: