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Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 7:32 am
by Counterparts
Hi all

Our company's celebrating its 20th birthday by sending all of us on a weekend trip to Prague soon! :smile: End of this month, in fact.

If anybody's been there, I'd be interested in ideas of what to see, where to go, WHAT BEER TO DRINK etc...

Royston

p.s, Does anyody here live in Prague?

Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 7:55 am
by Spirit
Funny story this week about the mayor of Prague (might be useful to you):

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/co ... 77,00.html

Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 9:06 am
by Counterparts
Wow! Top bloke :smile:

Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 9:07 am
by Counterparts
Our company's celebrating its 20th birthday by sending all of us on a weekend trip to Prague soon! :smile:
ooh ooh...just heard; for our fortieth aniversary, they're flying us back again! :grin:

Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 9:12 am
by hubird
so CP, looking for a regular priced ride, the only thing you have to take care for is that you are disguised as the very Prague's Mayor! :grin:

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Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 1:23 pm
by spoimala
Our company's celebrating its 20th birthday by sending all of us on a weekend trip to Prague soon! :smile:
Good choice! Oh, I love that city.

Weekend only? That's bad. I was there for a week, and it was not enough. I hardly got to see The Very Must-Sees in there. I think two weeks there is a minimum for a never-been-before-guy.
If anybody's been there, I'd be interested in ideas of what to see, where to go, WHAT BEER TO DRINK etc...
Depends much on what you like.. but definately check out the Prague Castle. St Vitus' Cathedral may also be of good interest. Stare mesto in in's entirety is worth to see...

And don't forget to visit a café (the name of which I can't remember) that is located by the side of the main street (Vaclavské Namésti), on the highest floor, just opposite the Skoda headquarters.

What kind of things you like to see?

I don't know about beer as I don't like myself but many say that Staropramen is the best beer in the world.

Btw, they don't speak english very much there. Beer is 'pivo' in czech :wink:

The prices are unbelievable low! With price of mug of beer in Finland you can get ..maybe 7-8 in Prague, huh. And meals...about the same.

Southeast of the city is often considered "the dark side of Prague"; I didn't go there myself but a friend of mine living in Prague told that it would be the last place to go.

And last, stay away from buses and cars! The city of full of them; horrible traffic jams all the time. And especially, when the city has wonderful underground and trams. Rails are the way to go!

Have fun and enjoy!

Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 7:07 pm
by Spirit
Useful advice about beer drinking in Prague:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/co ... 77,00.html

Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 6:06 am
by Immanuel
On 2005-01-18 13:23, spoimala wrote:
St Vitus' Cathedral may also be of good interest.
Was that Sct. Vittu's Cathedral?

I'd definitely see THAT place! :wink:


(internal joke for the finns in the house)

Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 4:49 am
by spoimala
On 2005-01-22 06:06, Immanuel wrote:
Was that Sct. Vittu's Cathedral?
Unfortunately not :smile:

Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 3:41 pm
by samplaire
On 2005-01-18 09:07, Counterparts wrote:
Our company's celebrating its 20th birthday by sending all of us on a weekend trip to Prague soon! :smile:
ooh ooh...just heard; for our fortieth aniversary, they're flying us back again! :grin:

It reminds me of a guy from GB (with a strange sense of humour) visiting a studio I work for. After our work was done he phoned his work partner in London to ensure the final mix media (dat, cd etc) and I heard:
- hi Bob, I'm in Poland. How to go back to London?

:-/

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 4:43 am
by Counterparts
Prague was bloody amazing!

Beer: tick!
Food: tick!
Women: tick tick!!
Architecture: tick!

Would definitely go back for sure. Well recommended.

Royston