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Mladá Boleslav – an industrial town with an ancient history
A rumbling engine drowns out the sounds of fellow passengers on the bus –somehow fitting on a visit to Mladá Boleslav, a town synonymous with cars and car engines. A…
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Prague sees boom in luxury hotels
More and more people are checking into the Czech Republic’s four and five star hotels. Last year, the number of people holidaying in the lap of luxury in this country rose…
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The effects of Schengen entry on a Czech border town
I’m on a bus winding my way up the hill towards Potůčky, which is a little village on the Czech-German border. It’s in the north west of the Czech Republic, and is…
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A tale of two restaurants
Hrabal’s book "I served the King of England" makes working in a restaurant sound very dramatic, and very glamorous. But the novel also suggests that such drama and glamour…
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Temelín nuclear power plant – one of the country’s more unusual tourist attractions
The southern Bohemian nuclear power plant Temelín has long been a thorn in the side of anti-nuclear activists. Its operator, the power utility ČEZ, insists that the Soviet…
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Jilemnice - the cradle of Czech skiing
It is early on a Friday morning, the air is freezing and there is no sign of the sun in the sky. Yet, the creaky old Karosa bus heading towards Krkonoše or Giant Mountains…
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From As To Zlin…and back again - 19 days on Czech local trains
This summer, Rob Cameron and his former Radio Prague colleague Nick Carey – now of Chicago, Illinois - spent nineteen days travelling across the Czech Republic by train…
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Pardubice – the “best place to live in the Czech Republic”
Spotlight this week comes from the town of Pardubice, which lies about an hour away from Prague in east Bohemia. The pretty Renaissance buildings on the main square…
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The Lucerna Palace
The Lucerna Palace, long considered a beacon of Czech national pride has been celebrating its centenary this year without too much of the fanfare usually reserved for such…
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Eastern Bohemia’s Dvur Kralove
It’s a bit of a grey day here in Dvur Kralove. About the brightest thing I have seen so far is a café called Santorini, which has a picture of Greece in its window. But…
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The town where things turn to stone
Being turned to stone is the stuff of fairy tales and legends. But there is one place in the Czech Republic where you can witness this in reality - and that is the town of…
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Kolin - more than just a railway junction
Surrounded by railway sidings and industrial estates, it's easy to get the impression that Kolin is simply a town travellers pass through on the way from the Czech capital…
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