There are only a few cities left where you can actually get what you expect and Prague is one of them. No wonder why it is so popular. Sure it is lucky having a river, a hill with a castle upon it, romantic narrow streets, parks, super cute trams etc. but what really holds together all these can be described with one single word: hospitality. The devotion of Czech people to each other and to all the rest of us is somehow phenomenal.
As a literature person I evidently headed to the Franz Kafka Museum first which is just on the river bank above Charles Bridge. It was all cool but outside the building you will find something truly controversial – two bronze men pissing into a pool they stand in shaped as the country itself. And their hips are moving right and left and the stream rises and lowers. Proudly staring into nothingness these men are hilarious.
In the same street a genuine pub appears where a pint is a must. Expect the best and you won’t get disappointed. A few steps away an alley shocks you. Possibly the narrowest on the globe with a dedicated traffic light for pedestrians as two people are unable to bypass each other inside.
And then there is of course the Charles Bridge but it is so crowded all day you simply just want to get off it as soon as possible.
Now you might leap to the conclusion that I have nothing else to say about Prague but a beer, a museum and a narrow street. No, these only represent those three hours in the title. During which you get the very essence of a whole picture. You experience all you expected beforehand a little over three hours. That’s what I wanted to say and there you have it. And again: hospitality of the Czech. Even greater nations can only learn from them.
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