A European city has been revealed as one of the cheapest getaways you can take this year – and it’s the perfect place to welcome in 2025. Prague has topped the list for the cheapest flights from London Gatwick and the exciting city makes for the ideal New Year trip. Booking an affordable trip now … Read more
Every Friday, Lada leaves her small apartment to take tourists around Prague’s underworld. “I pass on my cautionary tale,” says the 54-year-old sex worker as she chain-smokes her way through Wenceslas Square in the Czech capital. “At least my ruined life can be useful. I can make a clean breast of it. It’s a relief.” … Read more
Every Friday, Lada leaves her small apartment to take tourists around Prague’s underworld. “I pass on my cautionary tale,” said the 54-year-old sex worker as she chain-smoked her way up the central Wenceslas Square. “At least my ruined life can be useful. I can make a clean breast of it. It’s a relief.” Lada, who … Read more
Having spent the last 12 years travelling around the globe, YouTuber Drew Binsky singled out a British stag-do hotspot as his favourite destination. Among its postcard-esque landscapes and historic monument’s, lies one of Europe’s most popular stag-do destinations, with scores of Brits making their way to Prague every year. After moving to Prague, Czech Republic … Read more
It is almost unimaginable that a programme billed as “Czech Classics” could exclude any music by Dvorak and then be capped off with Mozart to boot. Be that as it may, the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong (CCOHK) still managed to fulfil its billing on October 24 by featuring works by a handful of … Read more
Prague has introduced a ban on organised pub crawls to reshape its tourism image and address residents’ frustrations. The new regulations, which come into force in November 2024, aim to reduce the number of intoxicated, disruptive tourists—many of whom participate in stag and hen parties—while encouraging more refined, wealthier visitors. The city hopes this move … Read more
Pressure continues to grow in popular European travel destinations for a response to the negative impacts of mass tourism. This week the Czech capital, Prague, announced a ban on organised nighttime pub crawls. It came a day after residents in Spain’s two biggest cities marched in protest against rising property prices amid housing shortages they … Read more
This 2024 iteration of The Crow, Wei says, “definitely takes a modern spin”, even if the premise is the same. Bill Skarsgard plays the title character Eric, whose life is upended after he meets and falls in love with Shelly (FKA Twigs). When the two are killed, Eric is given the opportunity to exact revenge … Read more
After all, the makers of this beer in the south of the Czech Republic have some awkward history with Americans. More than a century of it, to be precise, centred on an intellectual property battle believed to be the world’s longest-running trademark dispute. A historical photo of coopers at the Budweiser Budvar brewery in Ceske … Read more
But when drinkers curious to learn more about this hazy, malt-forward wheat ale looked to enthusiast site Untappd, the US-based Brewer’s Association or the international Beer Judge Certification Programme, they found that Ukrainian golden ale didn’t officially exist. Lana Svitankova, 41, has spent the past three years working to change this. A beer writer and … Read more
