PragueBuzz!

When I saw someone selling cheap return tickets from Prague to Barcelona, I wanted to change the plan and travel to this city if only the date coincided with my upcoming holiday.

Do you know that a few years ago, one of the most popular hit in Europe is a song named “Asereje” or “The Ketchup Song?” The pop, feet-moving tune started a chain of sensation in many part in Europe and spread to South America. The main forces behind this hit are three spunky gals from Spain. 

Despite being  one of the first European countries I wanted to see, I never set my foot on Spain after three years traveling to quite a few places in this continent. Especially now that I develop a western-europe-who-care attitude, the prospect of my coming to Spain is slimmer than ever. Perhaps I should change my mind soon as Spain satisfies my life goals: improve my pitiful Spanish and experience the passion of life in Mediterranean. After all, my childhood favorite football club was Barcelona when Ronald Koeman, the Dutch footballer, played there. Though there are more places to explore in Spain, I am going to sick to Madrid and Barcelona as I know some people there and cross my fingers hoping that they will show me the city.

Buses and trains are popular transportation from Barcelona to Madrid, but flights are also available and lasts less than an hour and 30 minutes.

Ticket prices range from 94 euros to 320 euros return plus a service charge. You can find hotels in Barcelona for as low as 19 EUR and Madrid for a petty 25 EUR.  (Spanish version: Hotels en Barcelona)

From Prague, SkyEurope and Smartwings have frequentdai flights to Barcelona.

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Three weeks ago, I became a legitimate resident of Prague, capital of the Czech Republic. Beside its Slavic root, Germanic influence has played an important roles in shaping the Czech identity.

Berlin and Vienna, the historical and modern capitals of Czech’s two Germanic neighbors, Germany and Austria are only 5 to 6 hours drive and 2-hour fly from Prague. When you connect Berlin, Prague and Vienna, you will end up with a straight line with Prague as the midpoint. (See [pix])

I visited Vienna three times but never really “saw” the city since in all three occasions I ended up wandering about at Sud Banhoff where I got hit on by an Egyptian masseur and an Austrian station employee who offered me free massage and beer.

I’ve never set foot in Berlin but soon I will for I have a strange fascination by historical Eastern European events and sites. The collapse of the symbolic Berlin Wall inspired world-famous German rock band Scorpions to write their classic hit  “Winds of Change,” a song I I used to play non-stop during my childhood.

Traveling among Vienna, Berlin and Prague are easy. International and domestic buses, trains and flights are affordable–sometime very cheap. Budget Airlines covering these three countries are Germanwings, SkyEurope and Air Berlin. Lufthansa and Austrian airlines are worth a check; they are major airlines and cost more than smaller air carriers, but if you book in advance, you might find decent deals.

You can sweat over many thing but don’t burden yourself with the thought of being a homeless in these three major capitals. If you book ahead, you can find a hostel bed for as low as 10 EUR. Visit hotels in Berlin for more detail. Vienna hostels charge about the same prices; however, if you desire the comfort in a 3-star hotels in Vienna, you can get one for as low as 39 EUR.

German versions of this website: hotels in Berlin and hotels in Vienna.


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Heavy competition in the travel industry has driven airfares down to almost nothing–excluding taxes. Check out these low-cost carriers:

-BmiBaby: Flights between UK (home base) and Czech, Denmark, France, Greece, Netherlands, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland.
-Click4Sky: low-cost child of Czech National Airlines, CSA.
-Clickair: Flights between Spain (home base Barcelona) and Czech Rep., France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland.
-EasyJet: Flights between England (base London) and Czech, France, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, and many more.
-FlyBaboo: Flights between Switzerland (home base Geneva) and Czech Rep., France, Italy, Spain.
-Germanwings: Flights within Germany and from Germany (home base Cologne/Bonn) to Austria, Czech Republic, England, France, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey. Initially, there were only flights from Prague to Germanwings’ based cities in Germany; however, there are connecting flights to other major European cities as well.
-Skyeurope: (home base Bratislava but there are many flights departing to and from Prague) Flights within Croatia, Czech Republic, England, France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland.
-Smartwings: Flights between Czech Republic (home base Prague) and Denmark, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland.

Czech Airlines (www.csa.cz/en/) is the major carrier airlines of Czech Republic.

Try search engine Whichbudget to find cheapest flights from Prague to destinations in Europe at a particular period.

Or use the super search engine Kayak to find cheap flights.

It’s a bit confusing, but remember this. Prague is already counted as 3 zones: P, 0 and 1. So remember this as you buy the tickets.

If you want to travel to zone 1 in the map, you have to buy a ticket which covers 4 zones: Prague (P,0,1) and the map’s zone 1. If you go to zone 2 in the map, buy the ticket cover 5 zones. More on transportation tickets in Czech.

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