I mean it. It's full of tourists. And those are disappointed anyways.
The situation is unbearable so I decided to start this serie of articles giving all the good reasons why to avoid Prague when travelling.
Before we start and get more into detail, let me list just the most obvious arguments:
- If you want to discover Eastern Europe, go to the real Eastern Europe. The most Eastern thing in Prague are russian matrioshka puppets sold in shops run mostly by Asians. - they have no relation to Prague what so ever.
- If you like good beer you can come but you'll be disappointed by low variety. The common production is fine. But you should know that the most famous brand is actually German.
- If you want to see the set up of the Amadeus movie, I'm sorry to tell you it was entirely made up by the film makers.
- If all you know about the country is that Havel was its president, I have a bad message for you. He's dead.
- If you want to breath in the atmosphere of Kafka's books, set an appointment with your practitian soon after. First you're probably masochist, second, it's in deed possible to feel like Kafka wanted his readers to feel - after just one night walk through neons of lousy bars and crowds of drunken tourists on dirty sidewalks and streets colonized by sloppy taxi drivers, you'll have an authentic sensation of being slammed in the head with an axe.
And the romantic pictures of the blackened silhoutes of towers in the mysterious mist over water? That's smog. Both. The "mist" and the dark colour of the monuments. The latter is being removed now slowly. I'll let you know when it's done...
2022
