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Taxis and exchange offices. Two services foreigners only rarely find kind words about after they return from a holiday in Prague. But while taxis are ripping customers off illegally, the exchange offices are offering unfavorable exchange rates or a high fee totally legally. On Wednesday, two Prague female police officers …

Even though the lamplighter profession doesn’t exist anymore, we can still find some enthusiasts of gas lighting. In Prague, there lives probably the tallest lamplighter in the world. At 4 pm during the advent time, Jan Žákovec appears at Charles Bridge and then lights up the lamps the manually. Stature …

The ratio of yound people in the Czech population continuously declines. In 2001 the people, who were 29 years old and younger, account for 39,1 per cent of the population. 15 years later the ratio is only 31,6 percent. This corresponds to the loss of the number of citizens aged …

In 2015, the new underground station Nadraží Veleslavín was opened, from where the passengers can get by bus to Václav Havel Airport. Opening was connected with huge surprise, as no exit had escalator. People had to carry heavy luggage to the stairs. Even porters didn’t solve the problem. Finally, the …

Do you find Prague extremely overpriced? That is not the case. Prague is still one of the cheapest European metropolises in the tourist charts. When a Czech person goes for a walk around the Charles Bridge or the Old Town Square, he usually rolls his eyes at the prices, which …

Foreigner, don’t come to Prague and Brno without a map and a guide book! Almost thirty years from the collapse of the border between the West and the East, directional signs are still mostly in Czech. Brno plans on changing that by the end of the year, Prague will hopefully …

Trolleys will return to Prague in their modern version, at least temporarily. As part of the testing of electric buses, the Public Transit Company wants to try charging them through trolley lines during operation, which could extend their operation time. A kilometer of trolley lines will be built in the …

Tourists will not be allowed to roam even more streets of Prague on Segways. The council approved the expansion of the Segway-free zone on the east all the way up to Prague 10. The whole of Prague 2 will also be included. So far, Segways were not allowed in the …

The minimum wage in the Czech Republic will be slightly above the average of Central and Eastern Europe when it increases from 11,000 to 12,200 CZK in 2018. The region average is about 12,038 CZK (461 EUR). In the Ukraine, the minimum wage is less than 3000 CZK, while in …

While some people compare the fight against alternative taxi services to the movement for destroying machines in the 19th century, others see an attempt to skip the rules in this business model. The members of the Board for Business sent a clear signal on Wednesday that they don’t want to …