Prague is really an interesting and nice town; I enjoyed this journey in Prague: there are so many interesting places in this town: the Vltava river (in German Moldau) with the Charles Bridge: Milan the painter , who knows very well the bridge and sells his paintings to the visitors, Filip Jan Zvolsky disguied in the spirit of the waters who tells the story of the bridge (built during the reign of Charles IV) or the Bridge Band, street musicians.
We see the Bohemian glass at Moser's shop, Ivana Cote, the saleswoman explains that this factory has produced glasses for many royal famalies in Europe and we meet Petr Spatina, a musician playing on Bohemian glasses (he participated in a great TV show and also he is playing in the street of Prague.
At Gröbovka we discover the vineyards of Prague: there are in Prague about 12 hectares of vineyard producing 45.000 liters of wine. In a bar the visitors can drink this local wine. Then we travel to Melnik where Charles IV has introduced the Pinot Noir : we see the harvest of the Müller-Thurgau grapes in Melnik and then the harvest celebrations (with the character of Charles IV visiting Melnik and receiving the keys of the town).
Prague is also a place of cinema: René Menezes is a guide who shows to the tourists the places where great films have been made (Mission impossible for example, we see the German director Karola Meeder filming in Prague (she explained that there are very good film technicians in the Czech Republic), we know about the Czech School of Cinema (Milos Forman studied there) and about the Barrandov studois with his collection of 500.000 dresses and accessories, we see also some extracts of the film "Praha" of the young director Matias Trnka.
We discover also the Rom community in Prague: the singer Gejza Bendig of the "Terne Chave Group", we go to the Zizkov neighborhood and visit the social center where young Rom boys and girls can practice music, we meet also Gypsy Cz a modern Gypsy and hip-Hop singerwho is promoting better relationships between the Czech population and the Czech Rom community,
I enjoyed also the excursion to the Giant Mountains where the people enjoy mountain bike rides and to the Climbing Paradise wher the people climb sandstone rocks,
I enjoyed the nice encounters of Raphaël with Katarina Jenicek (the guesthouse near the forests, the meeting with Pavel Trulha, the puppeteer), with Petr Skala, the clock-maker in charge of the astronomical clock.with Dagmar Sormova, the beekeedper at the Petrin Hill, with Blandine Berniel ( the bike tour, the market and the duck terrine, the pianiust and the Dancing House), with Vaclav Sojk in the Swiss Bohemia (the walk through the forest, the meeting with Natalia Belisova and the restoration of the old mill and finally the hot air balloon ride), with Véronique and Cédric Louvel imn the Holesovice neighborhood ( the community garden, the cubist architecture ) and the traditional Moravian dances party. There were great moments of discovery (the sharing bikes association, the new markets of Prague, the community garden of Holesovice, the green spaces of Prague) and I appreciate the kindness of these Czech men and women.
We see the Bohemian glass at Moser's shop, Ivana Cote, the saleswoman explains that this factory has produced glasses for many royal famalies in Europe and we meet Petr Spatina, a musician playing on Bohemian glasses (he participated in a great TV show and also he is playing in the street of Prague.
At Gröbovka we discover the vineyards of Prague: there are in Prague about 12 hectares of vineyard producing 45.000 liters of wine. In a bar the visitors can drink this local wine. Then we travel to Melnik where Charles IV has introduced the Pinot Noir : we see the harvest of the Müller-Thurgau grapes in Melnik and then the harvest celebrations (with the character of Charles IV visiting Melnik and receiving the keys of the town).
Prague is also a place of cinema: René Menezes is a guide who shows to the tourists the places where great films have been made (Mission impossible for example, we see the German director Karola Meeder filming in Prague (she explained that there are very good film technicians in the Czech Republic), we know about the Czech School of Cinema (Milos Forman studied there) and about the Barrandov studois with his collection of 500.000 dresses and accessories, we see also some extracts of the film "Praha" of the young director Matias Trnka.
We discover also the Rom community in Prague: the singer Gejza Bendig of the "Terne Chave Group", we go to the Zizkov neighborhood and visit the social center where young Rom boys and girls can practice music, we meet also Gypsy Cz a modern Gypsy and hip-Hop singerwho is promoting better relationships between the Czech population and the Czech Rom community,
I enjoyed also the excursion to the Giant Mountains where the people enjoy mountain bike rides and to the Climbing Paradise wher the people climb sandstone rocks,
I enjoyed the nice encounters of Raphaël with Katarina Jenicek (the guesthouse near the forests, the meeting with Pavel Trulha, the puppeteer), with Petr Skala, the clock-maker in charge of the astronomical clock.with Dagmar Sormova, the beekeedper at the Petrin Hill, with Blandine Berniel ( the bike tour, the market and the duck terrine, the pianiust and the Dancing House), with Vaclav Sojk in the Swiss Bohemia (the walk through the forest, the meeting with Natalia Belisova and the restoration of the old mill and finally the hot air balloon ride), with Véronique and Cédric Louvel imn the Holesovice neighborhood ( the community garden, the cubist architecture ) and the traditional Moravian dances party. There were great moments of discovery (the sharing bikes association, the new markets of Prague, the community garden of Holesovice, the green spaces of Prague) and I appreciate the kindness of these Czech men and women.