Czech Mate

Marty O’Neill discovers why a visit to Prague is not to be missed.

It’s one of those city breaks that your friends talk a lot about. That one neighbour who constantly throws back to their romantic getaway a few years back, before the kids came along, getting doughy-eyed after a few glasses of fizz round your house on a Friday night and now, at last, I understand why. Czechia (*pronounced Check-ee-a) or more commonly known as the Czech Republic, is socially unrecognisable and has broken free from the cloak of communist rule of years gone by. In just 35 years, this country has transformed itself to be a central part of the European Union and a fully paid up member of NATO. No mean feat.

Read more in the January issue…