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Stepping OutOn board - and wily - at the Paluba games room
It used to be one night a week in Prague on one of the city's steamboats
travelling up and down a stretch of the Vltava River - the Paluba games
club - a place to go with friends or to meet new ones to play a wide
variety of board games you never had as a kid. But, then, Paluba changed
locations: many members wanted a more regular place to visit, and the
steamboat was getting expensive. Today, the Paluba games room has docked
in Prague's Andel district: a club where people of all ages can get
together to match wits.
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Topics this week: Educational project teaching children to live alongside
animals. "Tourist Police" force. Czech national anthem.
Listeners quoted: Michael Stein, Pavel Barta, Frederick Johnson.
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Letter from PragueFather in double trouble
The last few days have been marked by various events here in the capital
Prague, all of them in some way connected with road transport and traffic,
as the past week was designated European Week of Mobility. One of them was
a race - with people trying to get to the city centre from various places
by car, bike and public transport. On each occasion public transport and
bikes proved faster than the car, although some drivers complain that the
race fixed and the result was a foregone conclusion. In another event,
mothers with prams and buggies raced against each other along sidewalks
struggling to weave between parked cars.
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Press ReviewPress Review
The coalition government is under pressure from all sides -can it possibly survive? That is the question which commentators are now addressing daily, depending on which way the wind happens to be blowing. Today Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla is seen as having triumphed in the clash of wills with trade unions, who have agreed to desist from further protest actions despite having received no significant concessions from the government. More
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Prague blue-chips hit a three-year high earlier this week. Meanwhile, the
Czech crown fell to its lowest in over a year and a half against the euro.
The Czech central bank will most likely change its inflation targeting
policy. New Telecommunications Act forces former monopoly Czech Telecom to
rent last mile to competitors. Czech Telecom to sell off some assets. The
largest Czech coal-burning power station out of operation. Power Utility
CEZ eying mulls eastward expansion. Sixteen buildings in Prague's
Wenceslas Square are up for sale again.
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Stepping OutRock Solid
In the middle of the city, in Prague's Jama Street there is one bar you can
visit if you're in the mood for something a little unusual, that is, for
climbing up the walls. Confused? Well, let me explain: the so-called
Boulder Bar was launched for and by avid rock climbers two years ago with
the aim of providing practice space for beginners and experts to hone
their climbing skills. Fancy moves, hanging from various knobs, pegs,
handholds, and footholds, often falling to the thick padded ground - all
that is just part of the regular order of things. Since its inception the
venue has grown ever more in popularity among both climbers and
non-climbers interested in just hanging out. Some get a work-out on the
wall; others get a work-out of a different sort at the venue's bar.
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Press ReviewPress Review
A new bout of illness for President Klaus makes the front pages today -
"President Taken To Hospital" thunders MLADA FRONTA DNES,
accompanied by a large colour photo of Mr Klaus kissing his wife. There's
also a front-page photo of the presidential couple in PRAVO - there too
the story is big news. Only LIDOVE NOVINY and HOSPODARSKE NOVINY take a
more sober line - the former giving the story second place after the Greek
earthquake, and the latter barely mentioning it.
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Current AffairsPrague marks first anniversary of flood catastrophe
August the 13th, 2002, is a day most people in Prague won't forget in a
hurry - it began with wailing sirens and ended with the biggest deluge the
Czech capital had seen in five hundred years. Exactly one year ago Prague
woke up to find parts of the city underwater, and the effects of those
"five hundred year" floods are still with us today.
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Current AffairsFriends of Wenceslas Square aim to revitalise Prague's most famous street
Wenceslas Square has been one of the most important places in Prague since
the Middle Ages, when it was known as the Horse Market. It was renamed
Wenceslas Square during the Czech national revival and has - over the
years - been the scene of many significant moments in the country's
history. It has seen many changes in recent years, not always for the
better. We asked some pedestrians on the square what they thought about
it.
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Current AffairsCzechs urged to stay home in Tourist Authority campaign
The Czech Tourist Authority has launched a campaign to encourage Czechs not
to go abroad on their holidays but rather spend their vacations in the
many remarkable places their home country has to offer. As part of the
"Beautiful Country" project, Czech celebrities are cycling 1,500
km to encourage people to "discover home".
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