Go to Prague if you want to see how American's have exploited a city which had it going for it (no offence to our American cousins). I went a few years ago to stay for 3 nights but left after one day. Not nice at all...
Go to Budapest if you want culture and excellent food (including the best café’s in the world). There is a reason for why it's called little Paris... ^
Hmmmm... I'm in Madrid as I write this, doing some late research on Budapest a few days before heading there, and I read this gem from one of our Irish cousins... I started to think about how the over
5 million Irish immigrants that have settled in America since 1820 have exploited the entire place... Overwhelmingly for the better!
It's my opinion that more exploitation and damage was historically done to Prague and Czechoslovakia by those guys wearing jackboots. Wasn't Reinhard Heydrich (AKA "The Hangman") serving as Nazi Governor of the occupied country when he was assasinated in Prague? After the Nazis, those defenders of personal freedom, the communists, festered in Prague until the Prague "Spring," and then the
Velvet Revolution which brought an end to communism. The great patriot Václav Havel was elected president during the country's first democratic elections in 1990 and in 1993, guided Czechoslovakia in the
Velvet Divorce split into two separate countries: the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
If you want an interesting take on the Communist years, the
Museum of Communism is an interesting place to visit. It's located on Na Prikope 10 in Prague. My 15 year old daughter talked me into visiting it on one of our family trips to Prague and I enjoyed it more than I thought I would have.
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