Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan Thanks for the tip. A friend of mine lives in Prague and he warned me about local v. tourist prices -- huge difference. He is married, has a daughter, and the three of them live on $1500 per month and apparently live well. Just curious: what did you think of the people and the culture? Peter - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Wajsman" <wajsman@webshuttle.ch> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 10:24 PM Subject: [Leica] Re: Prague (was: New Photographs - party season) > Peter, > > I think he meant that you needed a lot of film because the city is very > photogenic. I was there last in the summer of 99, and there was no shortage of > film, including slide and B&W. Prague is in every respect like any other major > European city, which unfortunately also means that the days of cheap eating and > drinking that were a feature of Eastern Europe right after the fall of communism > are now gone, and all prices are at or above Western European levels. > > One thing I did not like about Prague was that it was extremely touristy, with > souvenir vendors every five meters in the old city. But you are going in > February as far as I recall, which should make it better in this respect. > > Nathan > > Peter Brock wrote: > > > Is that because of the plentiful things to shoot, or the lack of film there? > > Have you been there? This will be the first time for me and I will be there > > for a year or so. > > Peter > > -- > Nathan Wajsman > Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland > > e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch > > Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw.htm > General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html