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Weekend Trips

Trains out on Friday, back for Monday: castles, spa towns and capitals within reach.

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  1. 6 min readPrague to Hluboká Castle: the train to Budějovice and the short hop onThe white Gothic-revival castle that looks borrowed from England is a few hours south of Prague, and the last stretch is where trips go wrong.
  2. 6 min readPrague to Kolín and Kutná Hora: a rail loop for a long day outEveryone takes the train to Kutná Hora. Fewer stop at Kolín on the way, which is why it makes a better day. A route that uses the line properly.
  3. 4 min readPrague to Munich by coach: the long ride and the Oktoberfest weeksA coach is often the cheapest way to Bavaria and takes a big bite out of the day. Where it stops, what the border adds and why Oktoberfest changes everything.
  4. 4 min readPrague to Saxon and Bohemian Switzerland: crossing the border on footOne sandstone landscape, two countries and one invisible line. How a walk from Hřensko to the German side works, and what to plan for the way home.
  5. 6 min readPrague to Venice: how to get there by air, rail or roadNo train leaves Prague with Venice on the front. Three real routes, the two Venetian stations that confuse visitors and what to check before the lagoon.
  6. 6 min readPrague to Vienna and Budapest on one trip: a five-day rail routeThree capitals on one rail corridor, no flights, one hotel change each. How to string Prague, Vienna and Budapest together without ruining any of them.
  7. 4 min readPrague to Vienna by coach: stops, luggage and the Sunday squeezeThe coach leaves when you need it to, but the stop at each end decides how your day goes. Where to board, where you land in Vienna and what to check.
  8. 4 min readPrague to Vienna: train, bus or flight, and which one winsOn paper the plane is fastest. Count from hotel door to hotel door and the train usually takes it. How the three compare, and when each one earns its place.
  9. 6 min readPrague to Warsaw: train, bus or flight, and which one really winsOn paper it is a flight of little more than an hour. Add the airports and the train through Katowice competes better than you think. Three ways, compared.
  10. 6 min readPrague to Zlín and Moravian Slovakia: a long weekend in the eastA shoe-factory city built as a utopia, then wine cellars and folk festivals next door. Czechia's far east needs a proper weekend, and a plan for the trains.
  11. 6 min readPrague to Zurich: train and plane compared, and what Switzerland changesA flight is faster, a train through Munich is lovelier, and Switzerland sits outside both the EU and the euro. What to know before booking either.
  12. 4 min readSalzburg from Prague: Mozart, a mountain fortress and the long way thereIt is a six-hour haul, so make it count: a baroque old town under a hilltop fortress, Mozart's birthplace and the Alps one tram ride away.
  13. 4 min readŠumava National Park: forests, lakes and the quiet end of CzechiaCzechia's largest national park is a green wall of spruce and beech on the Bavarian border, with glacial lakes, peat bogs and few people. Slow travel, rewarded.
  14. 4 min readTelč: a Renaissance square worth the trip, and the awkward journey thereA square of pastel gables, a moat-ringed chateau and ponds on every side. Telč is hard to reach by train from Prague and rewards you for the bother.
  15. 4 min readTerezín Memorial: how to visit a Second World War site with respectTerezín was a Gestapo prison and a Nazi ghetto, and it is not a casual day out. How to reach it from Prague, what the Memorial runs and how to visit well.
  16. 4 min readThe Krkonoše Mountains: hiking, skiing and the roof of CzechiaCzechia's highest range has a summit on the Polish border, the source of the Elbe and a mountain spirit who moves the weather. Summer trails, winter slopes.
  17. 4 min readTřeboň day trip: fishponds, carp country and a very flat bike rideEach autumn the ponds around Třeboň are drained by hand and the carp are hauled out in nets. It is a Christmas dinner's backstory, with waders.
  18. 6 min readVienna airport to Prague: bus, train or taxi, and which one to bookLanding in Vienna but sleeping in Prague is a four-hour decision, not a quick hop. How each way of crossing works, and the checks that save an evening.
  19. 4 min readVienna day trip from Prague: a realistic one-day itineraryHours of travel each way and not many left for the city. What a Vienna day from Prague really allows, and the point at which you should book a bed.
  20. 4 min readVienna from Prague by train: a weekend of palaces, cafés and cakeFour hours by direct train, no airport needed. How to book, what to see in the old town, why the coffee house has UNESCO status and what shuts on Sunday.
  21. 4 min readWrocław from Prague: bronze dwarfs, a market square and a layered pastOnce Bohemian, then German Breslau, now Polish Wrocław. A weekend city of bridges, islands and tiny bronze dwarfs, reached by train or bus from Prague.
  22. 4 min readZnojmo and Podyjí National Park: vineyards, gherkins and a river canyonCzechia's smallest national park follows the Dyje along the Austrian border. The town beside it has a Romanesque rotunda and tunnels under the streets.