Václav Havel made a perfectly extraordinary speech yesterday, condemning ours as "the first atheist civilisation", which "has lost its connection with the infinite and with eternity". Havel is not often thought of as a defender of religion, and the Czech republic is by some measures the most completely dechristianised part of Europe...>read more
One Nation Over With God Statistics about Czechs often seem to me to come from some other country I don?t know. But there are two popular ones that I can vouch for: that Czechs drink more beer than anyone in the universe, and that 81% of them are atheists, agnostics or non-believers. The rationale behind either of those is a question for a longer discussion, but both of them seem like rather obvious positions to me. I like living in a place where there is lots of beer and no god...
Prague Overrun by friendly people Some people say that Czechs are unfriendly. Obviously, such people are simply not in the right place at the right time. Try any central Prague metro exit or the top of Wenceslaus Square for example, where I have been stopped by the friendliest Czechs imaginable every day for the last two months now...
Ceský rozhlas 7 - Radio Praha,By Rosie JohnstonThere was a media frenzy surrounding the opening of the Czech Republic?s first Starbucks on Friday. In its new branch on Prague?s Malostranské námestí, the world?s largest coffee-shop chain promises to ?enrich people?s lives, one cup of coffee at a time?. It remains to be seen whether Starbucks will live up to its promise, and attract Czechs to pay more than the average for a mug of premium coffee.
