Czech Republic
by Anna Brones (RSS feed) (22 days ago)
If water is cheaper than beer, what do you choose? Beer. No wait, water. No, beer. Water?
It's not an option most of us are presented with - a free glass of water is easy to come by. But in bars and taverns across the Czech Republic, the birthplace of pilsner, opting for ...
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (24 days ago)
A research team in Scotland and the Czech Republic has developed a tractor beam.
A press release from St. Andrews University reveals that scientists at that university and at the Institute of Scientific Instruments in the Czech Republic have for the first time been able ...
by Kraig Becker (RSS feed) (2 months ago)
The calendar may still say 2012, and I know we all have a busy holiday season to navigate yet, but it is never too early to start planning our trips for the new year ahead. To help us out with that process, Discovery Adventures has announced a host of new tours and ...
by Dave Seminara (RSS feed) (4 months ago)
I had to go to Bulgaria just to see if Bill Bryson was full of crap. In his book, "Neither Here Nor There," published in 1991, Bryson wrote, "Sofia has, without any doubt, the most beautiful women in Europe." I was in college when I read the book, and at the tail end of the ...
by David Farley (RSS feed) (6 months ago)
I was blind drunk in a town most non-locals can't pronounce. I'm blaming the waitress for this. Pronounced "Slav-oh-neetzay," this town of 2,500 is too small to occupy the visitor for more than a day, which is one of the reasons I was spending the afternoon in a pub.
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by David Farley (RSS feed) (7 months ago)
Ask almost any seasoned traveler (or travel writer) about their most memorable journeys and you'll likely get a tale of pain and suffering. "The best trips are the worst trips," is a quip I constantly hear coming from travel writers' mouths. And they're right. Not only ...
by Justin Delaney (RSS feed) (8 months ago)
From a Czech forest castle reported to house the gates of hell to a gargantuan castle right here in the United States, the world's most haunted castles boast histories rich with frightening details. Specters haunt the halls of these old castles and travelers visit to ...
by Jessica Festa (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Czechia, also known as the Czech Republic, is a country located in Central Europe that was formed in 1993. While most visitors go to explore the architecture, history, and nightlife of the capital city of Prague, there are actually many outdoor and natural experiences to be ...
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
The famous astronomical clock that is Prague's most popular tourist attraction has lost some star players for the next two months. The four outside figures, including a skeletal Death, have been removed and are being repainted to protect them from the elements.
The ...
by David Farley (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
As the last tiny fireballs shot into the tree, marking the end of this bizarrely belated Christmas celebration, my Czech friend's father, Ladia, looked at me and giggled nervously.
Was he happy we didn't burn down this bone-dry pine tree in their living room? Or was ...
by David Farley (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
I ate well this year. Maybe better than any other year. I spent a week in Hoi An, Vietnam eating cau lau--an obscure noodle dish that technically can only be made in the small coastal town. I ate my way through Barcelona, dining at restaurants whose chefs had a ...
by David Farley (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
For an increasingly large sector of humanity, eating has become more than just stabbing at something with a fork, putting it in our mouths and masticating. Chefs are perceived as rockstars, the food blog-o-sphere is inhaling Miracle Grow, and eating has been given a kind ...
by Kraig Becker (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
As we mentioned last week, the World Rafting Championship took place in Costa Rica over the weekend, with 48 teams (29 men, 19 women) competing against one another on a wild stretch of the Pacuare River. The competition, which began on Friday and finished on Monday, ...
by David Farley (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
I had walked for an hour in the northern Bohemian spa town Karlovy Vary looking for a place to eat. I have a general rule when I'm in these tourist-crammed towns: no hotel restaurants and no obvious tourist trap eateries, of which this town formerly known as Carlsbad has ...
by David Farley (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
There's a specter haunting Central Europe. A very quaffable, sweet-tasting specter, that is. And no, it's not absinthe. This bibulously inspired drink is only around for a few weeks in September. Which means there's much debauchery happening right now in the center of ...
by Kraig Becker (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
A new study conducted by George Washington University, Vital Wave Consulting, and the Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) shows that Israel, Chile, and the Slovak Republic led the way in adventure tourism in 2010. The study, which resulted in the third annual Adventure ...
by David Farley (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
There's not enough beer in Bohemia to ever help you pronounce Ceske Budejovice, a Czech town located in southern Bohemia, about 100 miles from Prague. But there is at least one reason why you should go there.
Why? Let's go back to the early 1870s, when soon-to-be ...
by David Farley (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Let us consider the beer garden. For many of us, the lasting imagine of this outdoor suds-flowing extravaganza is one of older gentlemen showing great prowess in swinging one-liter steins of beer while lederhosen-clad musicians hammer out polka tunes on accordions. ...
by Matthew Firestone (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Today's featured summer travel destination has undergone a massive transformation in recent decades. Once regarded as an isolated capital on the red side of the Iron Curtain, it is now the sixth most visited European city behind London, Paris, Rome, Madrid and Berlin. Having ...
by David Farley (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
The last thing I wanted to do before I got to Olomouc [pronounced Oh-low-moatz], a town in the north-eastern part of the Czech Republic, was eat cheese that reeked of unwashed feet. But there I was, in a village just outside of the historic university town, at a museum ...
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