Category: Prague Tourism

Update 2: Charles Bridge-cleaner Miloslav Cerny murdered his wife and her lover in 1999, and served 12 and a half years of a 20-year prison sentence (iDNES.cz) [Social Media Post]

Architecture / Crime / Law / Prague Tourism / Social Media Posts / Violence

3 August, 2019

Update 2: Charles Bridge-cleaner Miloslav Cerny murdered his wife and her lover in 1999, and served 12 and a half years of a 20-year prison sentence (iDNES.cz) [Social Media Post]

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Update: Charles Bridge’s phantom cleaner reveals his identity: Miloslav Cerny, who makes his living removing graffiti, used high-pressure steam jet and says his technique is more efficient and less damaging than that planned by official restorers (Seznam Zpravy) [Social Media Post]

Architecture / Crime / Prague Tourism / Social Media Posts

1 August, 2019

Update: Charles Bridge’s phantom cleaner reveals his identity: Miloslav Cerny, who makes his living removing graffiti, used high-pressure steam jet and says his technique is more efficient and less damaging than that planned by official restorers (Seznam Zpravy) [Social Media Post]

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Person or persons unknown cleans German tourists’ graffiti off Charles Bridge, before official restoration work begins; conservationists worried that paint-removal might have damaged bridge’s stonework (Seznam Zpravy) [Social Media Post]

Architecture / Crime / Prague Tourism / Social Media Posts

29 July, 2019

Person or persons unknown cleans German tourists’ graffiti off Charles Bridge, before official restoration work begins; conservationists worried that paint-removal might have damaged bridge’s stonework (Seznam Zpravy) [Social Media Post]

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Fire service inspections of 178 Czech “escape rooms” find two-thirds have safety issues; more than half occupy premises that haven’t been certified for this kind of use (iDNES.cz) [Social Media Post]

Accidents / Czech Tourism / Firefighters / Leisure Time in Prague / Leisure Time in the Czech Republic / Prague Tourism / Social Media Posts

19 July, 2019

Fire service inspections of 178 Czech “escape rooms” find two-thirds have safety issues; more than half occupy premises that haven’t been certified for this kind of use (iDNES.cz) [Social Media Post]

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Denik picks nine of the Czech Republic’s most beautiful railway journeys, including three that begin in Prague (Denik.cz) [Social Media Post]

Czech Tourism / Czech Travel / Prague Tourism / Prague Travel / Social Media Posts / Trains

13 July, 2019

Denik picks nine of the Czech Republic’s most beautiful railway journeys, including three that begin in Prague (Denik.cz) [Social Media Post]

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Hungarian coach-driver given room with mouldy carpet, dirty bathroom, thick layers of dust, crumbling plasterwork and unpleasant smell at Prague 3-Zizkov’s Aron Hotel Prague; hotel says room was used only because all the others were booked (Nova) [Social Media Post]

Czech Tourism / Prague Tourism / Social Media Posts

12 June, 2019

Hungarian coach-driver given room with mouldy carpet, dirty bathroom, thick layers of dust, crumbling plasterwork and unpleasant smell at Prague 3-Zizkov’s Aron Hotel Prague; hotel says room was used only because all the others were booked (Nova) [Social Media Post]

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Good Read: Raymond Johnston tours “Prague’s cemetery row”, a collection of five distinctive burial grounds where Prague 3 meets Prague 10 (Magic Bohemia) [Social Media Post]

Prague Tourism / Social Media Posts / Strange & Spooky

27 May, 2019

Good Read: Raymond Johnston tours “Prague’s cemetery row”, a collection of five distinctive burial grounds where Prague 3 meets Prague 10 (Magic Bohemia) [Social Media Post]

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Taxi driver charges 8,700 crowns to take tourists from airport to hotel in Prague 5-Smichov – around 16 times the usual price (550 Kc); money is refunded after cops track down driver (Tydenik Policie) [Social Media Post]

Crime / Police / Prague Tourism / Prague Travel / Social Media Posts / Taxis

3 May, 2019

Taxi driver charges 8,700 crowns to take tourists from airport to hotel in Prague 5-Smichov – around 16 times the usual price (550 Kc); money is refunded after cops track down driver (Tydenik Policie) [Social Media Post]

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15 guests at Prague 4-Chodov’s Best Western Amedia Praha hospitalised because of nausea and vomiting; cause of sickness currently unknown (Novinky.cz) [Social Media Post]

Health / Prague Tourism / Social Media Posts

29 April, 2019

15 guests at Prague 4-Chodov’s Best Western Amedia Praha hospitalised because of nausea and vomiting; cause of sickness currently unknown (Novinky.cz) [Social Media Post]

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Ryanair passenger on Prague-to-London Stansted flight complains that her seat had no lifejacket (Metro UK) [Social Media Post]

Aeroplanes / Czech Tourism / Foreigners / Prague Tourism / Public Transport / Social Media Posts

18 April, 2019

Ryanair passenger on Prague-to-London Stansted flight complains that her seat had no lifejacket (Metro UK) [Social Media Post]

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