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links: czech republic & prague |
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The Czech President’s office
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Czech Embassy, London
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British Embassy, Prague
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Foreign & Commonwealth Office travel advice: Czech Republic
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Centre for International Reimbursements — healthcare information for visitors to ÈR
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‘travel & accommodation’
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Eurolines — also National Express for travel in Britain
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BEI: Bohemia Euroexpress International — operates Eurolines service London-Brussels-Pilsen-Prague-Brno-Ostrava
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Bohemian Lines — London-Oostende-Gent-Brussels-Namur-Luxemburg-Pilsen-Prague-Brno
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Capital Express coach travel — London-Pilsen-Prague-Jihlava-Brno-Olomouc-Ostrava; UK site on upper button, Czech site below
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Kingscourt Express coach travel — London-Pilsen-Prague-Jihlava-Brno
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London Express coach travel — London-Pilsen-Prague-Brno (no English)
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ÈSA (Czech Airlines)
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ÈD: Èeské Dráhy (Czech Railways) — English available
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Flights & fares — go to the ‘flights’ entries in our travel links table
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Visit Czechia — official web-site of the Czech tourist authority
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Internet cafés in Prague
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Czech.cz — another official site: excellent introduction, many areas covered
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Czech Republic general information: U.K. Tourist Offices — excellent information source covering background, regulations, contact numbers &c.
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Czech Tourism — unofficial; information in 22 categories
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Travel Notes: Czech Republic
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Lonely Planet: Travellers’ reports — read before a trip
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Prague public transport map
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All Praha — comprehensive guide to Prague
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Andìl 3w guide to Prague — Danish site: cranky and interesting |
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Prague.com — touches most topics with links; staggeringly slow to load
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Expats.cz — for anglophones living in Prague
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Travel.cz — local travel agency for Czech Republic & Prague
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Hostels in the Czech Republic
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To do a full search for hostels across the country, pop up the hostel search box (click the link below). There you will see all of the towns where there are currently hostels listed on the Hostel World system. The other links below give listings for three towns: Prague, Èeský Krumlov and Liberec. If you go on to book, it will be on a secure server. You will find information about other hostels, which are not bookable through Hostel World, lower down the listings.
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Hostels: Prague
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Hostels: Brno
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Hostels: Karlovy Vary
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Hostels: Èeský Krumlov
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Hostels: pop up search box
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Travellers’ Hostels — well-run hostels in Prague, Èeský Krumlov, and now a summer one in Brno |
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Hostels on Prague TV site — good, but no on-line booking
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Bed.cz — accommodation (mostly hotels) for Prague and the Czech Republic, plus general information
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Prague hostel: Clown & Bard — this one certainly is Bohemian
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Prague hostel: Siesta hostel & camp-site
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JSC Travel — hostels in Prague; also hotels, city tours & cultural events
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Prague guide with no name — lots of stuff, including hostels
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Prague Hotel Reservations — mostly upmarket – hotels & apartments; some cheaper rooms (bottom button)
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TBS — upmarket – on-line hotel booking and introduction to Prague
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Brno hostel: Jan Amos Komensky Student dormitories — rooms are let out to the public throughout the year
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Travellers’ Hostels: Brno — one, summer only: big, basic, nice old building |
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Brno hostels: BUG — three at the time of writing
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Accommodation in Litomìøice
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‘culture’
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Prague: Heart of Europe — excellent source of listings
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Arts & Entertainment: Prague TV — a slightly misleading name for this site, which carries all sorts of listings
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What’s On When: Prague — mainly classical music, ballet, opera, but also football and other stuff
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History & culture of Czechoslovakia: 1 Up Info
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History of Prague: Ellipsis — supposed to be an architectural history, but actually covers everything: excellent
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Bohemica — Czech language and culture
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The Czech Language
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Czech Centre, London
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Czech Center, New York
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Welcome to Prague — official guide ‘book’
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Brno — official site
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Karlovy Vary Film Festival
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Èeský Krumlov — official site
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Avant Garde: Franz Kafka
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National Gallery (Národní Galerie)
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Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
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Josef Sudek — one of the greatest of Czechoslovakia’s many great photographers: one arm and a mahogany 10x8 Gandolfi
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Czech & Slovak Staged Photographs — several first rate artists examined
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Jan Saudek & Sára Saudková — two great contemporary Czech photographers on one site
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Prague House of Photography — gallery
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Past & Present of Czech Photography — speech by Eva Hodek, Director of the Prague House of Photography
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Foto Škoda / Langhans Galerie — big photographic shop with gallery (lower button) attached: Prague 1
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Mucha Museum, Prague — no images on the site, but the museum is a must
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Futura Galleries, Smíchov, Prague
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Galerie Mánes, Prague 1
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Gandy Gallery, Prague 1
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City Gallery, Prague — in the heart of the old city
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Plastic People of the Universe — a history of the Plastics
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Tamizdat — Czech music
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A touch of velvet (24 hours in Prague): The Guardian 9/10/99
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Treaty of Accession to the EU — signed in Athens on 16 April, 2003
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Czech informers’ names published — BBC, 20 March, 2003
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Remembering the Velvet Revolution: BBC 17/11/99
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Prague marks Velvet Revolution: BBC 18/11/99 — lower button: excerpts from Vaclav Havel’s speech
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Czechs laugh off communism: BBC 21/11/99
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I lost my heart in Prague: The Guardian 18/12/99
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Bohemian rhapsodies: The Guardian 6/5/00
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Prague for a song: The Guardian 8/4/01
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The best possible taste: The Guardian 4/7/01
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Tipping the Velvet Revolution: The Guardian 12/10/02
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Art-house cinema booms in Czech Republic: Screen International 12/6/02
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Divided We Fall — film review in The Guardian
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Dark Blue World / Tmavomodrý Svìt — an interview in The Independent with the veterans whose experiences inspired the film
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Globe bookshop, Prague — a gem, despite being an expatriates’ hangout; also an excellent coffee shop: the brownies are incomparable
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Svìt Knihy / Bookworld — association of Czech booksellers & publishers
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Prague: ‘Frothy Mugs and Preserved Tongue’ by Rob Humphries on Rough Guides — his comments about U Èerného Vola hereby endorsed
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Bad toilets and good beer in Prague and Kraków — one traveller’s impressions from the Hackwriters site
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Lava: the Praha experience — the lowdown on various cultural and historical aspects of Prague: excellent
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Lonely Planet: Czech Republic — stacks of information
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‘Czech Site’ — guide to Prague & Czech Republic: aimed upmarket (hotels & hire cars) but Travel Guide section is worth reading
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Time Out: Prague
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Graffiti in Prague: Art Crimes
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Jewish Museum, Prague
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Jewish Prague: World Union of Jewish Students
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Jewish Prague: Rebirth of a Community by Veronika Tuckerová in JTS magazine
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Kosher Prague — in a city that once had a thriving Jewish community, Kosher food is hard to find now; also accommodation & tours
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Project Judaica Foundation: Tour of Jewish Prague
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Prague: photo tour (Radio Prague) — the photos are very poor but the information is good
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Czech and Slovak Republics: ‘African Culture, Warhol and Apocalypse’ by Rob Humphreys on Rough Guides
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National Theatre (Národní Divadlo)
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The Prague Spring Festival (Pražské Jaro)
11 May – 3 June, 2006
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Obecní dùm / Municipal House
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Czech Philharmonic
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Prague Chamber Orchestra
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Prague Music News — mostly classical
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Czech music — classical — portraits, interviews, festivals, reviews, new CDs; part of a larger site
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Magdalena Kožená — official site
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Magdalena Kožená — rising star of opera: article in the Daily Telegraph
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Preserving the past — ten historical sites in the Czech Republic are protected as UNESCO World Heritage sites
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Sedlec (Kostnice) Ossuary — official site (top) and mini-site by Frisco Ramirez
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Prague Post photo stories
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Roma in the Czech Republic: Radio Praha
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Roma in the Czech Republic: Radio Nederland
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Czech Republic: Discrimination Against Roma Minority Still a Problem (30/1/97) and Roma Population Protests Division of Town (5/6/98): Radio Free Europe (U.S.)
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Czech communists guilty of harassment: BBC 12/2/02
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Czech communists go on trial: BBC 3/12/01
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Writers without a cause: BBC 11/10/99
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Charter 77 text
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Commemorating Jan Opletal: Radio Praha 18/11/04
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[text & audio] The death of Jan Opletal — former students talk about the death of the anti-occupation protester in 1939
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Jan Palach: Light at dusk — on 16 January, 1969, Jan Palach set himself alight on Václavské Námìstí
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Jan Palach: Mourning a martyr — interview with Jiøí Palach
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Jan Palach: Prague riots over student martyr (BBC)
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Days of dissent — three generations of student leaders recall triumph and tragedy
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The Prague Spring, 1968: 1 Up Info — succinct introduction
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The Prague Spring: Thinkquest
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The Prague Spring — introductory essay by Professor Gerhard Rempel at Western New England College, USA
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The Prague Spring: Radio Prague History On-line
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The Prague Spring: Encyclopaedia of Marxism — interesting angle
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[text & audio] Dubèek and Brezhnev: the last conversation: Radio Praha
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Prague Spring Invasion, 1968 — photo gallery from An Abridged History of Europe by William M. Brinton; alleged video is awol
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The long shadow of the curse of the Prague Spring: Jan Èulík — lecture written for the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies
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The Prague Spring and the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia: New Interpretations, by Mark Kramer (parts I & II)
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Europe Remembering the Prague Spring: BBC 21/8/98
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Lessons still being learnt from 1968 Prague Spring: BBC 21/8/98
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Czechoslovakia in 1968 – an invasion remembered: Radio Free Europe (U.S.) — chronology of events leading to the 1968 invasion; the 1968 invasion and its meaning to today’s Czechs; 1968 viewed from the occupiers’ perspective; Poland’s Jaruzelski says 1968 invasion a political and moral mistake; western press recalls Prague Spring
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Book: Prague Spring: A Mixed Legacy ed. Jiøí Pehe (Amazon)
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The Prague Spring 1968: Marie Charousková’s grave
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Thomas Mann: how a small Bohemian town saved a troubled Nobel Prize laureate — in the Prague Post
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Lidice & Cwmgiedd — a horror perpetrated by the Nazis in 1942 linked forever two small villages: one Czech, one Welsh
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Dark blue world — the often unpleasant fate of Czech servicemen who fought for Britain in World War II
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The Sudeten Germans’ forgotten fate: BBC — the fate of ethnic Germans expelled from Czechoslovakia after WWII
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War brides — life in communist Czechoslovakia wasn’t easy for British women who married Czech servicemen after World War II
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The Nude in Czech Photography 1960-2000
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Communist fashions at the Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague
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20th-Century Czech Photography: A Dark Modernism — U.S. on-line gallery & commentary
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Around the Czech Republic in Ten Days: personal travelogue by Darren Jackson, April 1997
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The Unofficial Tatra Automobile pages
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The International Streamlined Tatra site
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Tatra World
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‘beer’
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Radio Prague: ‘A Beer-Drinker’s Odyssey Begins on the River Vltava’ — excellent collection of pages
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Prague Pub Guide — eccentric Dutch creation, well written, well informed and absorbing; appalling graphics
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Czech Beer — directory
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Beer Map — of breweries
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Czechoslovakian Beer Competitions
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Pivnice U Zlatého Tygra — one of Prague’s most celebrated pubs, and rightly
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Chodovar — Flash-based, no English
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Cerná Hora — English available on one page
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Eggenberg, Èeský Krumlov — English available
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Ferdinand, Benešov
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Gambrinus — now the downmarket brand for Prazdroj / Urquell; no English |
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Janáèek, Uherský Brod — no English, despite promises |
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Pivovar Jihlava — some English |
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Korbel, Turnov — no English |
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Lobkowicz — no English |
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Pilsner Urquell Beer World (Pivní Svìt) — beer theme park in Pilsen
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Plzeòský Prazdroj (Pilsner Urquell) — South African ownership has degraded this once-great beer, as well as others in the same stable
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Podkovan — English available |
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Primátor, Náchod — some amazing strong beers as well as more normal brews |
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Radegast — now part of Pivovar Prazdroj; no English |
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Starobrno — great beers, good web-site; English available
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Staropramen — the scourge of Prague, this Bass-owned company is drowning competition in the capital with its mediocre product; no English, amazingly
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Svitavy — with English; their main brand is Doktor
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Pivovar Velké Popovice — a wonderful, cranky site, with some good graphics to download; another great beer wrecked by SAB
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‘people’
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T.G. Masaryk: The Legacy of TGM — biography and eulogy
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Franz Kafka — life and work: web links |
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Edvard Beneš — biography |
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Jan Masaryk by Alena Škodova: Radio Prague — biography with audio |
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Jan Masaryk: Radio Prague — article marking the anniversary of his death |
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Jan Masaryk on England & the English — a new translation for T2 of
this funny and affectionate piece |
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Karel Èapek — English language resources for one of Europe’s most important modernist writers |
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Jaroslav Seifert — two extracts from the Nobel laureate’s poetry, plus English language resources |
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Translating Seifert by Tim Rogers |
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Bohumil Hrabal — and the cinematic revolution: The Guardian |
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Josef Škvorecký — short story: ‘The End of Bull Mácha’ from the collection When Eve Was Naked |
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Václav Havel — his personal web-site (some English)
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Playwright exits stage left — an excellent profile by Neal Ascherson in The Observer 2/2/03
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Author of Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution exits the world stage: The Guardian 1/2/03
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President Havel: the end of an era: Radio Prague 1/2/03
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Vale, Václav: Daily Telegraph 1/2/03
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Czech president leaving after 13 years: New York Times 1/2/03
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Havel’s legacy of change: BBC 1/2/03
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Vaclav Havel: from ‘bourgeois reactionary’ to president: Radio Prague
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End of an era: Prague Post 29/1/03
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Symbolic last trip for Czech president: BBC 29/1/03
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Václav Havel: Dissident writer’s presidential career nears poignant end — tribute in the International Herald Tribune |
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Václav Havel — brief biography of the playwright and Czech President |
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Václav Havel: excerpt from Summer Meditations — insight into Havel’s views about politics and personal integrity |
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Bolek Polívka — the actor, writer, director, clown and theatre-owner presents his own site in Czech |
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David Èerný — he of the Pink Tank of Prague and other subversive stories — in Czech, but the images and video are great |
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‘news’
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Czech Happenings — on-line arm of Czech news agency; serious despite the dopey name; mixture of Czech & English
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Radio Prague
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Topix Czech Republic News
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Prague Daily Monitor
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Prague Post
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Prague Post photo stories
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Èeské Noviny — no English
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Lidové Noviny — no English
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Julie Denesha: photojournalist — slow to load, but impressive
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‘slovakia’
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Slovak Embassy, London
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British Embassy, Bratislava, Slovakia
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Foreign & Commonwealth Office travel advice: Slovakia
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| Accommodation in Slovakia — search with secure booking |
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Bratislava Hotels — hostels, pensions & hotels
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Travel Notes: Slovakia
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Slovakia: Region.sk — accommodation is upmarket, but other info interesting
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Slovakia: Slovensko.com — background information; no accommodation
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Slovakia.org — cultural & historical background material; well laid-out; no accommodation
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‘book search’
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