The Czech Beer Festival got underway last week and runs till the 2nd of June 2012. This year, after a few years ‘in the wilderness’ of Prague 9/Letnany it’s back at it’s original location in the Vystaviste exhibition grounds (you’ll have to make your way round the side of the main exhibition hall to get…
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We’re ringing in the New Year here at JayWay with the addition of some new destinations, with two new countries on our map and four cities in total. We’ve got a selection of accommodation options as well as some superb excursions and day trips in each city and we’ve worked out all the transfer options…
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With the sun coming up on a glorious, if slightly bracing October Saturday morning, we bundled into the rented car and headed West, to Plzeň (Pilsen in German). Getting there By road the journey takes between 80 and 90 minutes. We went by car because I’d rented one for the whole weekend but I’d recommend…
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The Czech Republic is well known for having the highest per-capita consumption of beer in the world and is famous for inventing the Pilsner style of lager but there’s more to Czech beer than the big four breweries. Over the past few years a movement towards microbreweries and smaller breweries has been changing the beer…
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The big game kicks off in the early hours of Monday the 7th of February, Prague time, so be prepared for a late one. Fortunately several sports bars (and some significant new venues since last year) will be staying open late for you to enjoy the whole thing. Some places have free wifi too, so…
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A two day trip to Ceske Budejovice and Cesky Krumlov in South Bohemia, Czech Republic. Notes on things to do and see and how to get there.
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