(I’ll write this in English, because it will be useful mostly for non-Czechs.)
When your friends from abroad come to Prague and ask you to show them around, you face the difficult task of choosing the right things to make it impressive, not boring and in a way representative. That is actually very difficult, especially for someone who was born and has ever since lived in Prague. You don’t have the necessary distance to judge what stuff is interesting for a foreigner, because you walk in those streets every day and you have seen all the buildings hundred times.
When I came here, I found out that quite many people had actually gone to Prague for holiday, so when I say I’m from Czech Republic, they often know that it exists and even where it is (some still mix it up with Czechoslovakia, but hey, you can’t blame them for that:-). And usually they mention something interesting they remember. I thought I might try to collect their impressions and maybe it will somehow prove useful in getting “outside picture” of Prague – either to exploit it or to try to remedy it in some instances! (more…)