If you're ever traveling in Prague, especially if you are alone and male, watch out for the Pickpocket Whores. I'm not sure if they are really even whores, but be careful, because they certainly are pickpockets.

They travel in pairs around the main tourist path, on Karlova and in the lower parts of town near the St. Charles Bridge. They stay far from the... read more

It was 1993, and Steve, Misha, Keta and myself were traveling in Prague. It seems that Steve and I accidentally interrupted a secret meeting. Was it the planning of a coup? An underworld discussion of a mafia-style assassination? A citywide drug-dissemination deal? We may never know.

We were standing outside a public men's room, which was down under the... read more