📰 WEEKEND NEWS RECAP
- Vacation inflation: prices in Hungary have soared for Czech tourists this year, but costs are down in other European locales.
- Czech Post has announced slower delivery time and increased prices for standard mail from July.
- Prague Tram drivers Nikol Pravdová and Daniel Rašplička won third place at the Tram-EM tram driving championship in Romania.
- Czech President Petr Pavel, Prime Minister Petr Fiala, and opposition leader Andrej Babiš met on Friday to discuss foreign policy and national security.
- The Czech Republic is planning to offer significantly more work visas for people from the Philippines and Mongolia.
- Russian insurgents aligned with Ukraine have reportedly used weapons from the Czech Republic during clashes in Belgorod, Russia, writes The Washington Post.
✔️TO DO THIS WEEK
- Monday, June 5|Summer Sunset Cinema is back on the rooftop of Arkády Pankrác. Tonight: Pretty Woman and The Blind Side.
- Tuesday, June 6|The exhibition European Gulag: Remembering the Victims of Communist Labor Camps opens at Ambit Gallery.
- Wednesday, June 7|The UEFA Europa Conference League final between West Ham and Fiorentina takes place in Prague, with residents advised of traffic restrictions.
- Thursday, June 8|Prague Quadrennial, one of the world's biggest festivals of scenography, performance design, and space, kicks off at Prague Market in Holešovice through June 18.
- Friday, June 9|Film Fest Naruby screens some of the worst movies ever made at a fitting location: Prague's historic sewage treatment plant in Bubeneč.
- Saturday, June 10|On this day in 1942, the Czech village of Lidice was burned to the ground and its inhabitants massacred by Nazi forces in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.
- Saturday, June 10|Rock legends Kiss will play in Prague for the last time during the End of the Road Tour at O2 Arena.
❓ POLL OF THE WEEK
Last week, we asked about your favorite park in Prague. A whopping 33 percent of respondents said it was Stromovka, while 10 percent chose Havlíčkovy Sady, eight percent selected Letná, and another eight percent said Petřín and Kinského zahrada.
With Czech Post announcing some major changes recently, this week we're wondering: how often do you use the Czech postal service?
How often do you use Czech Post to send mail?
📻 LISTEN ON YOUR MORNING COMMUTE
Internationally acclaimed curator Russell Ferguson has put together a Spotify playlist of Bohemian-themed hits from the 1950s through the 1990s for Bohemia: History of an Idea.
Check out the exhibition that goes alongside it at Kunsthalle Praha through October 16, 2023.
☕ YOUR MORNING CUP
Located at the Butterfly building in Prague 8, Liquid Office is the perfect way to start the day if you work in the Karlín neighborhood. Bonus: after hours, the cafe transforms into a cocktail bar.



