Prague-tical magic

IN THE baggage reclaim section at Vaclav Havel Airport in the Czech Republic following the flight from Dublin, a man asked the women of the hen party at the carousel: “How long are you here for?”

He was taken aback when one of the group replied that they were actually on their flight home. A reversal of fortunes, if ever.

Prague seems to have lost its name as a ‘stag/hen party capital’, maybe only because the costly and elaborate pre-nuptial parties are a thing of our distant financial past. It doesn’t mean, however, that the city has shut down. Prague has seen year on year increases in visitors for the last 20 years — bar one in 2002 when floods devastated the city. Numbers visiting the city are almost 5.5 million per annum.