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My first visit to Prague was on the ten thousand nine hundred and fifty ninth day of my life. I later described this day in a story that was published in a small magazine called The Remington Review. The story is in my travelogue in case you would like to have a look.
I returned to Prague fifteen thousand one hundred and twenty six days later and everything was different. The sun was shining, the Soviet Union had ceased to exist, digital photography had been invented, Czechoslovakia had broken up peacefully into two countries and I did not have the runs.
Besides the State Opera, where I saw Giuseppe Verdi's Aida the next night, there are two other opera houses in Prague: the National Theater (by the Moldau River in the middle of the top photo) and the Estates Theater, which is where Mozart's opera Don Giovanni had its world premiere in the autumn of 1787.
Unfortunately there were no performances at the Estates Theater during the week I was in Prague, but at the National Theater I saw Donizetti's Nápoj lásky, better known in Italian as L'elisir d'amore and in English as The elixir of love. The word LÁSKA means love in Czech, as I knew because it is painted in large letters on Prague's John Lennon Wall. (Láska means "love" and lásky means "of love".)
From my 2011 visit I have posted thirty Things to Do tips about Prague, divided up as follows:
Things to Do 1-10: Three opera venues, two music museums and one theater.
Things to Do 11-20: Prague Castle, Lobkowicz Palace, Franz Kafka Museum.
Things to Do 21-30: A bicycle tour of Prague.
Except for the tour groups I didn't see many people riding bicycles in Prague, and those I did see were mainly dressed up in tight-fitting lycra to look like racing cyclists.
Cycling as a form of everyday urban transportation is still rare in Prague (as of 2011), since there are hardly any bicycle lanes in the city and often little or no room for them. Those few people who do ride bicycles often ride on the sidewalk, which would be illegal in Germany but seems to be accepted or at least tolerated in Prague.
The Old Town is mainly pedestrianized, which is fine except that the streets are paved with large cobblestones and are very crowded with people, leaving practically no room for bicycles.
I did see some indications, though, that the city council in Prague is preparing for an increase in bicycle traffic in the near future. It will be interesting to see how the use of bicycles develops in Prague in the next few years.
The only cycling I did in Prague in 2011 was on the bicycle tour that I took with a shop called Praha Bikes. Otherwise I traveled mainly by tram, for reasons I will explain in one of my Transportation tips.
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The first bicycle stand in Prague
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thank you for visiting my prague page! and your comments! your prague is quite different .. as you yourself describe in your intro ... wonderful work!
I had to laugh at your comment on the "Erotic" shop next to your hotel. In Slovakia, after the Velvet Revolution, many new political parties sprang up, including a type of erotic party!
I'm in awe of some of the wonderful place you've been too. Such beauty, music and history here is fantastic. Thanks for sharing a special place in the world with us and me. Excellent page!
As always, the best transport and opera tips on the Internet :) I agree with you that the trousers could have been a bit shorter ;) It is agony listening to a speech when one doesn´t understand the language. What are the 3 words you know? I bet you know more... I see some similarities between some words in Czech and Serbian.
I’m thinking about visit Prague again. Tim have not seen it yet. Thanks for interesting tips!
Prague is my favorite city.My boss is Czech and we went there for her 80th birthday.Just after the Russians left, we camped by the Vlitava for a couple of weeks, it was quite a different Prague then.
Great Prague page Don! It's about time for me to go back there...
I just got back from Prague and I was astonished how much culture and wonderful concerts of classical music there are, all the time!
yeah was there in the new Czech Rep, already visit the older Czechoslovakia, differences yes, and the people are a lot talkative ::) nice areas of Prague.
Hi Don, this is a nice page, I especially liked the park and the museums on musicians! My cousin is going to Prague next week and I'm looking for things she could do, but unfortunately she explicitly mentioned that she does not want to visit museums :-(
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