ROB CAMERON

BBC Prague Correspondent
Articles tagged 'Germany'

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Food
FoodEx-communist states complain of rip-off food in EU

When communism collapsed in Central and Eastern Europe, previously unobtainable goods flooded the market. Today, shops and supermarkets offer broadly the same food and drink as in the West – a tangible result of global capitalism. But something is dawning on Czechs, Slovaks, Poles and Hungarians: the labels are the same, but the contents might not be.

BBC News2017-05-17border communism czech economy eu germany
Boat
BoatCzech bottle-boat inventors crave the sea

The Czech Republic may be a landlocked country but its historical borders once stretched as far as the Adriatic. People still yearn for the sea – there were even plans in the 1970s to build a tunnel to Yugoslavia. Most have to content themselves with an annual trip to Greece or Croatia, but a pair of Czech adventurers are building a boat… out of plastic bottles.

BBC News2014-04-16border czech czechoslovakia germany
Gustav
GustavBorn in Bohemia and Moravia ... but forgotten by us?

Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler, Ferdinand Porsche … most of us would describe these well-known personalities as ‘German’ – and we’d be half-right; German was their mother tongue. But they weren’t born in Germany or even Austria – they were born here in what is now the Czech Republic. A new exhibition is trying to correct the country’s rather cold relationship to them.

BBC World Service2010-09-03austria culture czechoslovakia germany jews prague
Trains
TrainsFrom Aš to Zlín - and back again

“Could you,” I once asked a train-mad friend “travel right across the Czech Republic using only the slow, stopping trains?” The answer was yes, as I and another friend proved in 2007. We spent 19 days covering 2,000 kilometres, setting foot in over 80 towns and villages, and crossing the border into Germany, Poland, Slovakia and Austria. This is an audio diary of that journey.

Radio Prague2007-12-26austria border czech eu germany poland slovakia trains