The three days we spent in Vienna were good but we were definitely pleased to checkout of our cramped firetrap of a hostel and board a train for a five hour journey to Prague. Prague is the capital of the
Czech Republic, which prior to 1990s was
Czechoslovakia and a member of the
Communist Warsaw Pact. The Czech people have struggled through hundreds of years of occupation and battering by just about every country in Europe (even the Swedes got the boot into the Czechs
400 years ago). Recently the Czechs have suffered under the occupation of the Soviet Union who established a very destructive communist regime after World War II. After the fall of Communism Prague has emerged as a prominent tourist destination in Europe because of its rich cultural history and a broad spectrum of architecture.
