Prague adventure travel guide

  

Prague Highlights (Edit)

When arriving at Prague International Airport catch the public transport into the city. It is surprisingly simple and cheap!

Here's how:
From the airport catch bus number 119 all the way to the start of the metro (underground) at station "Dejvicka".
Purchase a ticket at one of the machines at the bus stop and make sure you validate it once on the bus.
Once on the metro you will be travelling on the "B" line into the city centre. You can get off at station "Muzeum" and change lines to either the "A" or "C" routes.
It's very simple (compared to London underground) and sooo much cheaper too. Its a good idea to purchase tickets, however in my 4-days there I did not see any sign of ticket inspectors. There are no turnstyles etc preventing free use of the metro and many people seem to be taking advantage of it... but for the cost of less than 1pound its worth while buying a ticket.

For a big day trip catch a local bus to a small town called Cesky Krumlov. Could not recommend it more... its a tiny gothic town that seems frozen in a previous era (except for the tourist that flock to see its castle). The castle is the 2nd biggest in the Czech Republic after the Prague Castle (also worth a look). You can walk thru the entire town of Cesky in just a couple of hours, but its a great place just to relax and explore.  On hot days the river flowing around the town in packed with people in small rafts, kayaks, tubes etc. The river does a loop around the town and almost joins back up again.

Alcohol in the Czech Rep is sooooo cheap.  For those more adventurous types try green Absinth (also everywhere and cheap) aswell as another 'herbal' spirit that resembled metho (won't try that one again).  Czech beer is very good (and again very cheap), the most common beer is Pilsner Urquell.

The food is interesting.  Sometimes very good, but sometime average... so shop around. Traditional food is very bland such as potato or potato dumplings, bread dumplings, beef goulash, boiled broccoli. Duck seems to be a popular meat on all the menus as is fish. One of the most interesting local dishes is "Pork Knee"... which from what I could gather is literally a pork knee and its HUGE! I didn't get around to trying it tho.

Surprisingly chinese restaurants everywhere and they probably serve the cheapest food you'll find.

Some local lingo (by pronounciation and not spelling):
Thankyou = Dyekooi
Thanks = Dick-y
Beer = Peeevo
Cheers = Nass sDrravvee
Meat = Masso
No = Nay
Bread = Klebba
I'm having a heart attack = Ran-E-min-yey, mert vit-Say
I'm Lost = Ya sem mee mou

1 = Yeah-denn
2 = D-vee-yeah
3 = Trree
4 = Stear-reeh
5 = P-yett
6 = Sh-est