Czeching out Prague on the Metro’s Red Line 

Had such a fun day exploring Prague! 🚇😍

6:22 not a train station, it is Fortuna sport arena. it is serving primarily as ice-hoceky stadium but also basketball matches are played there, used to be home arena for HC Sparta Praha (HC as hockey club), has capacity over 13'000

As an Englishman living in northeast Prague who takes the C line from Letňany every other day, this is so delightful and surreal to watch. Great video!

As a tourist from the UK and not speaking a word of Checz I was amazed how easy and cheap public transport was. Best I've found in over 70 countries visited. Others please copy.

Fun fact: When they build an extension from Nádraží Holešovice, they used an unique method to build the tunnel. The station is above the river level, the tunnel is very close to surface, so they build the tunnel next to the river in a dry dock and then they let it float to its place. Documentary about it (in czech, but there are some animations there): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mtwB8cO_Arw.html

Thank you for this video Nick! We will be visiting in April/May and this was very helpful! I am subscribing and will be watching your other videos on the metro.

17:49 on Haje there is a statue of only two czech, or more precisely said, two czechoslovak astronauts, from which only one of them was actually in space back in 1978 - Vladimir Remek. The other one was a substitute for Remek. Btw. Remek was a first astronaut in space which nationality was outside of USA or Russia (Soviet Union/USSR). ESA (European Space Agency) refers to him as the first european astronaut in history... and just to ad, in the close proximity to the metro station Haje was a multiplex cinema, called Galaxie (galaxy)...

15:19 - the only "cultural park" nearby is Chodovská tvrz (the Chodov fort), charming little circular chateau/castle in a big park, used for cultural events. The underpass you are filming leads to the path to it, the park being the trees across the road. Do not feel bad, I could not find it for the first time either, and I'm practically a local.

Great tourist selfies!

14:50 ... no , when you crossed the highway, there are just houses and where regular locals live . It is just random neighbourhood with people´s gardens :D maybe somebody just mistakenly put it into google maps. I went there myself from Chodov shopping centre but .. nope .. just people and locals with houses :D .. calm though from the city and highway

I could have watched 10 hours of this

CZ has the lowest poverty rate in all EU ! very safe and successful country

Commie blocks and teletubby hills. What more could you want?

If you want to sound more like Praguer, always call it a C line, not red line, only villagers and people from Brno call it a red line. 😀 I think that our trust system with no gates is the best, it's like that in most of countries in former habsburg monarchy + germany and it's the best, when I visit some other countries where they have gates or those stupid e-tickets with chips, it super annoying and I walk much more there to avoid lines for tickets or gates. Here in Czechia, we hate waiting in lines, we never do that, when you need to buy month pass (but most of people buy that online now) in a metro station and you see line, you just go to other metro station with ticket office and buy that there. When I visited Lisbon, I saw people waiting literally in 50 m long line in front of some ticket window and also lines for ticket machines were pretty long and annoying, when I am in new country, I need more time to explore machine and check what it offers, so line behind you is really annoying. Similar with trains in Poland, crazy lines everywhere, you have to select specific train and seats....super annoying for a tourist, I prefer our Czech style where yoiu just buy flexible ticket from place A to place B and just go, you have ticket in like 5 seconds when you buy paper ticket at train station, it's always shock for me how it works in some other countries where it takes like 5 or even more minutes to buy a stupid train ticket and then they are surpried that people use cars instead. And most of bigger Czech cities have system of passes that you buy month or year pass and then you just travel, no gates, no validating, no beeping with some stupid e-ticket, that is how public transportation should be everywhere, it's the only system which doesn't bother you and you really want to use public transportation. BTW, Czech amusement parks (the same as amusement parks in Austria and maybe even in Germany) are not like those modern disneyland style parks, each attraction is mostly owned by a gypsy and you have to pay for each attraction separate, so you can walk in without some ticket and then you have to pay everywhere, so it's very expensive at the end. I visited modern western style park in Poland recently (in Katowice) and you pay like 35 eur for enterance there and then you can visit what you want which is more convenient and also because of gates and tickets, there are no weirdos in such amusement parks, so I prefer western style parks over our "gypsy amusement parks" or how to call that. I visited Prater in Vienna and I didn't expect it's the same shit as what we have here in Czechia, but it makes sense because we were part of the same cultural space and shared monarchy.

The Prague metro is under maintenance during the weekend I think, but also some stations are getting reconstructed thats why some stations are closed. But during night when the metro is not opened thats when the sort of normal maintenance happens.

Hi Nick just subscribed these videos are really helpful thanks do many people speak English in the bars and restaurants etc ?

What a lovely video! It is always interesting seeing some foreigners travelling around my well-known places. I hope you are (or at least were) enjoying your visit to Prague! And please, don't mind those complaining comments about some details, which weren't perfectly correct. Unfortunately, it is typical for Czechs to always correct someone, maybe because our education system is still hugely based on factual accuracy (more than logical thinking), so people are used to do that even when when they don't want to be mean.

You skipped stations Pankrác (Prague Manhatan) and folloving station Budějovická which is on the end of that area LiNE B - is more interresting - various verry different areas along the line. LINE A goes mostly through all -the touristic hotspots

Hi Nick and greetings from Prague. Very nice and unusual, one might say unorthodox way of exploring and introducing Prague. I really liked it. I moved to Prague in 1984 and lived here ever since, yet I've never visited some of those peripheral stations. However, you've almost killed me with your pronunciation of Chodov. 🙂 You see, in Czech »ch« is just one letter, not two-e.g. the name Michal, obviously the Czech variant of Michael, consists of five letters only, not six: (M)(I)(CH)(A)(L). In the alphabet it is right after H (good to know when scanning through a Czech dictionary or an index of some Czech book; e.g. W. Churchill won't be under C between A and B, but under Ch between H and I; yes, we are that perverted!). And the correct pronunciation of this letter is like unsound (or voiceless) consonant H, something like this Santa Clause doing his “Ho ho ho“ in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QLRipM03ZhA.html Definitely not like tschodov. If the sound is too difficult for you-for some native English speakers apparently is-, using K would be better, Kodov as in co(rrelation)-dov.

1:20 ... bro, you missed Ládví and Kobylisy station (between Střížkov and Nádraží Holešovice :D ) ? maybe some more .. maybe on purpose ? idk

So many factual errors you must be fishing for comments… Well, you got me! * 01:17 and 01:37: In Prague metro, you don't have to press the button on doors unless it is backlit (green). No light = automatic opening, green light = press the button, blinking green light = already pressed. In trams and buses it's the other way around: green light = already pressed, no light = waiting to be pressed (and the driver can decide to open all doors regardless if they've been pressed or not). Think of it as a form of integration - in here we integrate the public transport system and the IQ test. * 03:21: Střížkov is a nightmare to maintain (cleaning all that glass). Otherwise I don't have a problem with it. And it is also a nightmare for tourists staying in the large hotel accross the road from the station, when they are trying to explain to a taxi driver where he should bring them. Try saying Střížkov… * 04:02: Stations Ládví and Kobylisy skipped. Kobylisy is one of the deepest stations, though not the deepest in Prague - that's Náměstí Míru on A line. * 06:07: True, completely opposite direction. * 06:22: Wrong, Ice hockey stadium. You're lucky local fans haven't kicked your ticket. Train station was where you got out from the metro. * 06:46: Yeah, district Praha 7 (around Vltavská station) is considered the hipster part of the city. * 09:15: Exit will be reopened once they finish ongoing repairs of the station. Also, after Florenc, the main train station is skipped. * 10:13: Museum-Pražského Povstání around 3 km, so a fit person can make it in ~30 minutes walking. (Excluding Vyšehrad visit.) Btw: stations I. P. Pavlova and Vyšehrad in this section. * 10:20: Fort, not a castle. Though later you got it right. * 11:58: See, you know it's a fort! * 12:32: They are all dead, they won't mind. * 13:02: Actually it'd be easier to walk to Pražského Povstání from there - not too much further than the replacement bus stop at Vyšehrad. * 13:13: Seven excluding Pražského Povstání. * 13:53: Skipped Pankrác, Budějovická, Kačerov and Roztyly. * 14:00: Roughly 3 km, so it's similar to that Muzeum-Pražského Povstání excluded section. * 15:20: I would say that "Chodovská tvrz" (I'd say "fortified house", not a big fort like Vyšehrad) accross the road and to the left is a cultural center with the adjacent park. * 16:09: Thumbs up! I also like to explore where the actual people live in the city and not just the tourist parts. * 17:54: The highest building from prefabricated concrete panels in the Czechia in the background (81 meters). * 18:04: The metro tunel is a few meters below your feet in this park.

1:25 You forgot stations Ládví, Kobylisy, Hlavní nádraží, I.P. Pavlova, Pražského povstání, Pankrác, Budějovická, Kačerov and Rozptyly

17:58 I hope that was a british humour :D it is obviously a church :D

YOU SKIPPED SOOOOOOO MANY STATIONS IN THIS VIDEO !!!

Use the app no need for paper ticket

Speak to the lens not the screen. You need to engage with your audience. It looks like you're talking to people behind me. Huge mistake