Evening in Prague

Prague specifics * Zizkov - ex-working class district of Prague. It's the contemporary Czech center of Prague in the sense that the Old Town and Mala Strana are occupied by foreigners. In Zizkov there are cheap pubs (perhaps the biggest concentration of pubs per kilometre in the world) and the Czechs love beer. * Prague Pubs are places where many social topics are discussed. The greatest rival is found in the "cafés" (during communism they were stagnating - but are now on the rise again). In the pubs (and cafés) topics like politics, culture, favorite TV programs and of course football and ice hockey are discussed. * Beer - most Prague pubs sell only one brand of beer on tap, which is often specific to that pub. Czech beer is popular throughout Europe, and the Czech Republic (and Prague in specific) has a rich history of beer brewing. * Praguers (the people of Prague) prefer not to be called Eastern Europeans. The preferred term is Central Europeans. * Praguers (and the Czechs in general) have very sensitive subtle humour (sometimes hard for foreigners to recognize). * Prague is famous for its night life. There are hundreds of "night clubs", music clubs and

Channel: Travel & Events
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
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