Prague

A fairytale setting for love

Love bites and love potions

Start your meal with Bechoroova, a potent yellow liqueur, and move on to Budvar beer, the local pride and joy. Czech food is a rich and meaty affair featuring dishes like wild rabbit casseroles, venison, and potato and sour cream.

The Palffy Palace, with its high ceilings and gilt mirrors, is the perfect place for a lighter lunch al fresco on a long balcony overlooking a garden. For an intimate candle-lit dinner for two, head to the Opera Grill with live piano music accompaniment. If you're fond of art nouveau, go for The Hanavsky Pavilion, which has perfect views of the city. Macdonalds in Wenceslas Square is not very romantic, but might inspire a debate on the success of capitalism over communism. Kavarna Slavia, centre of the dissident movement in the past, is a must-visit bar.

Propose here

On Charles Bridge in the evening in full view of the illuminated castle, preferably with snow on the ground and the sound of classical music in the distance. Who could possibly refuse you?

To get you in the mood

Milan Kundera's novels, delightful combinations of humour, romance, philosophy and politics, are frequently set in Prague. Try The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Joke, his short story collection Laughable Loves, or The Unbearable Lightness of Being -- also a memorable film starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Juliette Binoche.

Language of love

Vsechno nejlepsi k vasemu vryoci! = happy anniversary

Miluji te = I love you

Gratuluji = congratulations!

Vezmes si' mie = will you marry me?

Stags and hens

There is a good young crowd in Prague and bars and taverns stay open late. With Budvar beer going cheap, there is nothing to stop the revelry going on until well into the early hours. The U Flecku bar is the biggest in the city and the waiters automatically give you a new beer when your last glass is two-thirds empty. You have been warned...

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