Prague - Charles Bridge over the Vltava River - Yellow Penguin Sculptures outside the Kampa Museum - r.g. photo
1. The impressive amount of medieval historical monuments
2. Pubs where locals are in the majority (like Pivnice U Rudolfina)
3. Prague is an exceptional capital as it is truly Central European (neither Western, nor Eastern)
4. The metro network is cheap and excellent
5. Huge choice of restaurants
6. Locals are pleasantly low-key and have good manners
7. The unique character of Charles Bridge
8. Local girls are often very pretty, although they tend to look somewhat sullen
9. Mostly clean city, public safety is not bad
10. The view from the Vyšehrad (castle)
11. The old quarter of Vršovice (please dare to move out of the city center sometimes)
12. Riegrovy Sady beer garden(in the 2nd district) and the Letna Park beer garden (in the 7th district)
13. Cheap weekday lunch menu at the non-touristy Bredovsky Dvur (address: Politických vězňů 13), not far from Wenceslas Square
14. The Trabant Museum is amusing
15. Making full use of a rainy interval to look around the city on tramway nb. 22
Prague - outrageous, primitive graffitis on monumental walls - j.k. photo
1. Czech food is not really healthy, and for me, the knedlíky (or knödel) is rather tasteless
2. Many shady taxi drivers specialized in tricking tourists
3. The hordes of tourists (mostly groups) in the Old Town, especially in July and August
4. The disturbingly sharp contrast of a city seemingly split into two: the touristy and the non-touristy parts
5. Many buildings need to be renovated
6. There are quasi industries aimed exclusively at making tourists part with their money as thoroughly as possible
7. The pickpockets “imported” from Eastern Europe
8.
Prague people seem somewhat lifeless, their kindness being mere politeness, nothing
more - maybe they are just fed up with tourists and maybe some do not speak
English - some of them seem xenophobic
9. Dog poop on the sidewalks, drunken men, pissing in the street in broad daylight
10. The (mostly British) stag party animals coming to Prague exclusively for the cheap booze and strip clubs
11. The increasing prices in the Old Town shops
12. About half of the restaurants still allow smoking
13. The boring souvenirs in the shops on Karlova street
14. Wenceslas Square late at night, full of prostitutes, pimps, and menacing-looking doormen standing in front of the strip clubs
15. Many restaurants and shops try to charge tourists higher prices than what the locals pay
16. On weekends, there were barely any locals in the streets, only tourists.
17. The Golden Lane (Zlatá ulička) within the Castle area is barely 60 meters long, unexciting, lifeless - total disappointment - world-famous? what for?
18. Budapest is somehow more animated and diverse than Prague.
19. The stones of the Charles Bridge are dismally dark (smog or age?)
