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Okay, so not a traditional Czech dish

Of course you can find sushi in Prague if you want. But that should only be if you’ve had your fill of ~~smaženy sýr~~ smažený sýr, svíčková, and…uh…~~parký~~ párky? Edit: Thanks WiX

All aboard

Příští, next. Most famously uttered a million times a day on the Metro:
“Ukončete prosím výstup a nástup, dveře se zavírají. Příští stanice Pankrác.” For more on the Prague Metro: Prague Metro at MyCzechRepublic.com.

The Indo-European Family of Languages.

Infolicious The Indo-European Family of Languages diagram. Czech is grouped with Slovak, Polish, and Serbian under “West Slavic.” After Czech I looked for Hungarian, because I’d heard a story a long time ago about Hungarian’s obscure origins. According to h2g2, Hungarian is a Finno-Ugric language, “language family unrelated to Indo-European,” which also includes Finnish and Estonian. So that’s why it’s not in the diagram. Non-Czech trivia for the day.

via Anil Dash

Talkin’ about the buffet

Teplý and studený, warm and cold. Used most often to refer to food, as I understand it.

Set a spell

Pohodlný, comfortable.

And feel free to tell me if I am

Nesprávný, incorrect.

Outside the center

this is prague, by wishfish.

This may not be what you see in most people’s vacation shots, but to me it means Prague just as much as any photo of Charles Bridge. I spent lots of my time in Prague in neighborhoods like this, in Opatov or Pankrac (Hey, I can see my house from here!). We traveled around the city every day, so we never felt stuck in those neighborhoods. I can see how it could be oppressive to live in that kind of environment for a long time. But to me these photos mean Prague, and a personal connection that I rarely feel from photos of Prague.