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| The Czech drink the most beer per capita in the world, and it's not hard to taste why. |
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| "Futuristic" and "Soviet-built" don't normally go together, but the Prague subway is excellent. |
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| St Vitus Cathedral in the Prague Castle |
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| The Golden Lane in the castle |
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| Enjoying a drink at Cafe Slavia, a former hangout for dissidents of the Velvet Revolution |
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| Cafe Slavia |
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| The enormous Jan Hus Memorial in Old Town Square, a symbol of resistance against Catholicism and later communism |
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| Old Town Square, Staroměstské náměstí |
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| Astronomical Clock, with figures that come alive every hour |
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| The Black Knight, one of the two symbolic threats to the city, outside New Town Hall |
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| The castle seen from Old Town |
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| Inside the Altneushul, the oldest functioning synagogue in Europe (somehow spared by the Nazis despite the destruction of the Jewish community) |
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| The subways are very deep underground. |
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| Our shower, with a sprayer at chest level and no curtain |
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