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Before the pandemic, it might have seemed like an impossible dream, except maybe on a particularly cold night, such as on March 1, 1785, when the temperature fell to as low as -27.6 Celsius, the lowest historic temperature on record in the Czech capital. Back then, though, budget travel was centuries away. Besides, Prague as well as Charles Bridge dusted in snow is magical in winter, even for those averse to cold weather.
I bet your friendly Czech hotelkeeper will tell you, as mine told me again and again, from the Marriott to the Mozart Hotel Prague, that there is no more need for masks in the hotel premises, including—horror of horrors!—the breakfast buffet, but play it safe. After all, masks are still required on planes and in city transport, such as the buses and the trams.But Prague without the crowd is the most beautiful—and so is the 516-meter-long, 9.
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Clockwise from topmost: Puppets on a string at many of Prague’s popup markets; Sto.