A Guide to Prague for Beginners
Wenceslas square In the last few days there appeared two videos on Youtube. The first video was recorded by a tourist in Prague. In it a police officer is playing a song called River Flows in You by the famous Korean composer Yiruma on a piano. Without any exaggeration, this video symbolizes the modern and progressive side of Prague, the capital and the biggest city of the Czech Republic. This Prague is full culture life, it is full of stylish cafés and restaurants offering high-quality food and drinks for very reasonable prices. It is full of smiling waiters and waitresses. It is this Prague in which police officers seem to have a cultivated taste. And there are pianos on the streets (and nobody stole any of them yet). The second of the two videos is also from Prague. It shows a taxi-driver using a turbo meter hidden under a gear lever. This epitomizes what I hate about Prague – cafés and restaurants not cleaned since the fall of Communism, disdainful waiters and...