The Taleworlds Travel Advisory
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Almalexia said:
(In Arizona) Highly recommend checking out Antelope canyon, Monument Valley, Meteor Crater (stopped because I was driving by. Cool, but not drive-3-hours-out-of-your-way cool), and the Petrified Forest. All places I've been too personally. There are natural landmarks that I haven't seen that I hear are good, like Horseshoe Bend. Arizona also has some good museums and other non-natural attractions like that, if you're down for that sort of thing.
Incidentally, both the Petrified forest and Antelope canyon are on reservations I believe. I didn't have my tires slashed or see any signs of hostility when I was passing through, so I wouldn't worry about that.
They like tourists, because we buy things. Wish I'd spent more time in New Mexico so that I could recommend places there. A quick google search should yield some good results though. The one place I stopped was a cool little dinosaur museum, which supposedly had the most cast bronze dino statues of anywhere in the country. Forget which town it was in though.
Monument valley and petrified forest are good ideas.
Yeah, I think I was there back in the day. But I definitely didn't know about the monastery. Remember what it's called? (If it's Petrin Hill the VTMR fanboy in me will squeal like a little piggyVieira said:
)That sounds hilarious to do noon-drunk.
Sounds like my favourite vacation daytime activity. Did the same thing in Dublin last spring. Both alone and with Vieira, and had a blast. What I'm mainly looking for in line of activities are museums and such dedicated to war, weaponry and that stuff. I'm sure I was in something like that last time, but can't remember too clearly.kurczak said:
Now that looks like my kind of museum.kurczak said:
Hmmmm. From what I could tell those look a bit too hip, noisy and filled with young pweople for my tastes. At least the first two. But I'll have us swing by them anyways just in case I'm wrong.kurczak said:
Ohoooooo, THIS sounds like my kinda place. Cheers! I remember Slivovice well.kurczak said:
No worries, I'm not sixteen (this time). And I've learned my lesson about stuff like that on other holidays.kurczak said:
How bad is the pickpocketing, or street crime in general for that matter, there compared to other major European cities? I've never really had a problem with being pickpocketed since I'm quite good at keepin situational awareness even when intoxicated. But it always pays to be safe. And more importantly, informed of the major risk areas and such.kurczak said:
Again ,cheers for the warning, but I've been out a wintersnight before. We have the exact same kind of people even here. And my hard-drugs days are far behind me. How good/bad is the weed market there though?kurczak said:
Ad monastery - I think Viera meant the Brevnov monastery. It's the oldest monastery in the country, founded in late 900s, but architecture-wise it was almost completely rebuilt in the baroque period so it doesn't look that old. But yeah the monks run a medieval-ish looking "pub" there where you can have all kinds of old Czech meals, I think they even have their own brewery, but I don't know for sure, it' been some time since I went there. It's not strictly speaking in the historical center, but it's pretty close, just take tram 22 that goes through the center, direction "Bila Hora" (not "Hostivar") and take off at "Brevnovsky klaster" which literally means Brevnov monastery. It should take like 15, 20 mins from the center.
Ad museums - I am not aware of any specifically military museums, but maybe there are some. There's always the State Institute of Military History that has some expositions. So maybe check them out and see if they can point you to something more specific.
Ad pickpocketing and Nigerians - yeah if you survived Moscow and Petersburg, Prague will be a breeze.But i felt obligated to left a warning for posterity
Ad pubs - I wouldn't say any of them particularly hipster places. Chocobamba is sort of headquarters of the politically incorrect hip hop/horror-core scene, but the people there are mostly working class kids who drink a lot and smoke a lot of weed and rap about dead girls in the cellar and stuff The last thing it is, is pretentious.
Alternatiff, despite its name isn't really all that alternative. Again, mostly working class people with tattoos in camo pants who like to get high.
Weed is relatively easy to get, sometimes the dealers like to be difficult and tease you for 15 minutes that you are a cop, but since you will obviously be a tourist, they will probably skip the part I'm not sure if pointing you to specific places would maybe constitute breach of forums rules, so...
Ad museums - I am not aware of any specifically military museums, but maybe there are some. There's always the State Institute of Military History that has some expositions. So maybe check them out and see if they can point you to something more specific.
Ad pickpocketing and Nigerians - yeah if you survived Moscow and Petersburg, Prague will be a breeze.But i felt obligated to left a warning for posterity
Ad pubs - I wouldn't say any of them particularly hipster places. Chocobamba is sort of headquarters of the politically incorrect hip hop/horror-core scene, but the people there are mostly working class kids who drink a lot and smoke a lot of weed and rap about dead girls in the cellar and stuff
The last thing it is, is pretentious.Alternatiff, despite its name isn't really all that alternative. Again, mostly working class people with tattoos in camo pants who like to get high.
Weed is relatively easy to get, sometimes the dealers like to be difficult and tease you for 15 minutes that you are a cop, but since you will obviously be a tourist, they will probably skip the part
I'm not sure if pointing you to specific places would maybe constitute breach of forums rules, so...
Nice. I'll definitelycheck it out.
So there's nothing like at the Vysehrad Castle or Hradcny? (Those may be different names for the same place for all I can remember. Don't shoot the outsider.)
I barely saw any street crime in Moskva when I was there. Though the meth dealers probably don't make a habit of strolling up and down Arbatskaya.
Don't really have so much a problem with Hipsters specifically as hip, loud, young party people. I want my drinking places to have moderate noise levels and predominantly clientele over 25 above all else. (Ok, I'm starting to see the point about me being old.) I do like the run-of-the-mill working class slobs though. And those kinds of people are the ones I usually get along best with.
Eh, places don't tend to be that hard to find. Was mostly wondering about the level of general availability and the average quality.
I think people should be allowed to dislike whoever and whatever they want without having to be measured against silly age-standards.Danath said:And yet you complain when forumites think you are older than 30Teofish said:
Yeah they are two separate placesTeofish said:
Hrad means castle so Vysehrad is High Castle and Hradcany is Castle District. All the dukes, kings, presidents etc have had their primary residence at Hradcany. Vysehrad functioned as a sort of a refuge on the other side of the river where the royalty went when they were tired of listening to all the courtiers and bishops. I really doubt there's anything like that at Vysehrad. It's essentially just the ruins of the fortifications plus the basilica plus the Slavin "national" cemetery with a bunch of famous (in the context of the country) composers, writers and politicians buried there so a military museum there would feel a little off imo.
There might be something in Hradcany or in the Royal Castle proper. Like a Royal Armory or some ****, but I don't know. You know how it works - when you live in a city you never look for those places until somebody comes visit.
Edit: brief googling shows there is in fact Imperial Armory in Hradcany (location) Some photos, the page doesn't seem to have an English version. Since it's Imperial, it covers the, well, imperial i.e. Habsburg period, i.e. 15th to 19th century.
Well there will be young partying people almost everywhere in the center. Many of them Italians in fur coats, aviators glasses and a LOT of hair product, so brace yourself for that
Also a bunch of Americans with backpacks who will try really hard not to look American. So hard it will be extremely obvious they are Americans.Yeah selling weed is illegal, but effectively tolerated by the police in the center of the city unless you do it right in their faces, so you should not have too hard a time getting some. As for the quality, I can't tell. I am not a weed person, three puffs usually have me sobbing uncontrollably in the fetal position for hours so almost everything is too strong for me. Regarding price, ~ 300 CZK per gram is an okay deal for a tourist. 200 CZK is either a really good deal or ****ty weed. 400 is borderline acceptable. If possible buy from Czechs. I am told Albanians and various Middle East brown people have good weed for okay prices too. Nigerians will probably sell you oregano and pull a knife on you if you complain.
Oooh. Stuff like that is usually cool too.kurczak said:
Looks just up my alley. Cheers!
For some reason that conjured up memories of this guy.Many of them Italians in fur coats, aviators glasses and a LOT of hair product, so brace yourself for that
So pretty much same as here then. Good to know.
kurczak said:Sounds about right. Although seeing that 1 CZK is roughly 4 eurocents, there's no need to make fuzz about water being 39 and beer 40 or something like that
Well, we were students at the time. And I was trying to live on gifted holiday funds.
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I think the one we went to was Strahov. I don't think we went as far along as Břevnov.
Is the checquered republic intolerably racist? We were considering where to go in 2017 (if anywhere) because my mum is having an operation so we're trying to avoid long flights. My dad asked me where in europe would be a good place to visit so I said "how about the czekh republic" to which my mum said "I heard it's really racist out there".
By "intolerably racist" I mean people shouting racial slurs in the street or literally jumping us like what happened to Teofish in Sweden (yeah, I remember that somehow). Friendly microaggresion like asking why my palms are white is completely acceptable and makes for good conversation.
By "intolerably racist" I mean people shouting racial slurs in the street or literally jumping us like what happened to Teofish in Sweden (yeah, I remember that somehow). Friendly microaggresion like asking why my palms are white is completely acceptable and makes for good conversation.
Generally speaking, I think you should be fine. If I am correct in assuming that you would come between May and September and you would have the standard tourist experience i.e. historical Prague + maybe a one day trip to Krumlov or Telc then you will probably run into more tourists than native Czechs, so the real questions is "are German, Italian, Chinese, Korean and Japanese tourists intolerably racist?"
There's so few black people here that people have no "reason" to perceive them as a "threat" in that they might be stealing our jobs, women, welfare or whatnot. Not counting tourists, there"s really just the aforementioned Nigerian drug dealers who while visible and concentrated in the center of Prague are really just a couple of dozens at most and some med school students from sub-Saharan Africa. Ghana, mostly.
When Czechs want to be actively racist and take it out on someone, then the target of choice are almost invariably Gypsies. And to a much lesser extent the Vietnamese who came there in considerable numbers back in the Communist days. Sadly, since the refugee thing started, one Muslim guy was stabbed by skinheads for dating a blonde, white woman and a couple of women had their hijab, hmm, forcibly removed from their heads. Some of them were actually not Muslims but standard Czech women wearing a scarf because they were cold. In January. Preposterous.
There's so few black people here that people have no "reason" to perceive them as a "threat" in that they might be stealing our jobs, women, welfare or whatnot. Not counting tourists, there"s really just the aforementioned Nigerian drug dealers who while visible and concentrated in the center of Prague are really just a couple of dozens at most and some med school students from sub-Saharan Africa. Ghana, mostly.
When Czechs want to be actively racist and take it out on someone, then the target of choice are almost invariably Gypsies. And to a much lesser extent the Vietnamese who came there in considerable numbers back in the Communist days. Sadly, since the refugee thing started, one Muslim guy was stabbed by skinheads for dating a blonde, white woman and a couple of women had their hijab, hmm, forcibly removed from their heads. Some of them were actually not Muslims but standard Czech women wearing a scarf because they were cold. In January. Preposterous.
Good to know. Even if my parents never go it's still on my very short list of places to visit on my own. And if circumstances change there's always facepaint.
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As kurczak says, racism is usually present if large amounts of a certain 'race' are already present in order for a form of resentment to build up. No black people in czech republic-> No strong opinion on black people.
Prague is really nice medieval looking city and the girls are hot as well so..
Prague is really nice medieval looking city and the girls are hot as well so..
It's kind of funny that you can manipulate people's perceptions of certain groups by telling them they are prevalent in society or not.
For example, people (in general) distrust atheists, but this distrust decreases if you point out that atheists are really quite prevalent in society.
With people of other races/ethnicity, it actually works the opposite way, where telling people there are a lot of people from race/ethnicity X, actually increases prejudice.
For example, people (in general) distrust atheists, but this distrust decreases if you point out that atheists are really quite prevalent in society.
With people of other races/ethnicity, it actually works the opposite way, where telling people there are a lot of people from race/ethnicity X, actually increases prejudice.
Argentina... Great food, much safer, awesome people, actually more interesting places to visit.
