Czech Republic

This post on the cheapest ski resorts in Europe was updated in January of 2023.  How much will it cost you to go skiing in the old country? Not so much actually if you hit the cheapest ski resorts in Europe. If you’re traveling on a budget, it’s no secret that travel prices in Europe …

As I write this, Europe is opening up to vaccinated travelers after a long tourism drought, so I thought it would be time to highlight one of the best values on the continent that doesn’t get all that many vacationing visitors: Slovakia. The country has been in the last two editions of my book The …

There are plenty of places around the world where you can buy cheap-tasting beer for cheap, but if you want to drink well without spending lots of dollars or euros, head straight to the Czech Republic. There you’ll be in sudsy nirvana. Czech beers are uniformly tasty, without all the shortcuts mass breweries have sunk …

Imagine riding a couple hours from tourist-packed Prague and hiking in a landscape that looks like it came right out of The Chronicles of Narnia. It’s not a dream: you can easily do it by heading north to Bohemian Switzerland in the Czech Republic. There’s a good reason this region of rock towers and cliffs …

When I published this guest post on the travel prices in Prague originally, I had never been there. I skipped right over it and went to Moravia for a biking trip on my first Czech trip and never got to the capital. I eventually made it there though, so I updated it after that, then …