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I really don’t know why people go to Amsterdam. Prague has all the same late-night amenities at lower prices, plus it’s really nice in the day. I suppose Amsterdam probably is too, but I’ve never been there. Incidentally, my return flight was through Amsterdam, and the US customs officials decided that I must be a raging alcoholic as a result. They searched my suitcase for Absinthe. They didn’t bother to realize that I was only in Amsterdam long enough to take a leak and get on the plane.

Speaking of Absinthe, it was invented in the Czech Republic, except it wasn’t the Czech Republic back then. It’s pretty common there. I think I mentioned a while back that it was sold in my grocery store for around $12/bottle. I thought that was pretty funny.

Wenceslas Square is sort of the main night life part of town. There are tons of bars and restaurants around the city center, but that area in particular is dense with them. It is also dense with tourists. Preying on these tourists are prostitutes, drug dealers, and solicitors. It is my suspicion that these people are mostly pickpockets, but there are whores and drugs to be found elsewhere. The last night of the course, we all went out to bar in the area to celebrate. I was getting claustrophobic because it was quite packed so I went for a walk. Along the way, I was solicited for sex 3 times, drugs 2, and strip clubs 4.

The prostitutes walk up to you and simply say “Sex?” Normally, I would take it as a compliment if a woman walked up to me and offered to have sex on the spot, but these particular women were hideous. It was dark outside, but I could tell that I would throw up if I even tried. The drug dealers just say, “Marijuana, Coke, Ecstasy?” Always those drugs and always that order. The solicitors were usually for strip clubs but sometimes just for regular bars. On a side note, one of these solicitors convinced us to go into a bar on the night after my Playing Cupid story because the birthday girl wanted to do karaoke. They weren’t doing karaoke in the bar, and it turned out to be a gay bar. We probably would have stayed, but the waitress was incredibly rude. I don’t think she wanted us there. And that’s the story of my first trip to a gay bar. Back to the main point though, all of these night predators were very persistent. They would walk with you down the sidewalk for 10-15 feet trying to peddle their wares. I was shocked at how forward they were about the whole thing.

I’ve heard rumors about all kind of crazy clubs in Prague such as a place where you can have sex with a prostitute for free if you let them broadcast it on the internet. I’m not going to talk about any of these places here because I didn’t go to any of them. I might have inadvertently walked by, but if I did, I didn’t even know it.

One thing I did experience firsthand though, as I mentioned in a previous post, was Eurotic TV. This was one of my 60 TV channels, and I think it hailed from Germany or Austria. The entertainment of this network, as far as I’m concerned, was the hilarity of it. There were 3 of us at the hotel where I stayed, and we always showed our guests this channel because it was so ridiculous. Basically, there are about half a dozen girls in a studio which is made to look like a gym. There are treadmills, weights, those big exercise balls, oh, and a stripper pole. They played music continuously. The girls all had Bluetooth headsets on, and they were always talking to people on them. We presumed that they were doing some sort of live sex chat, but there was really no way to tell. They could have been talking to their moms or ordering a pizza. There were SMS messages displayed at the bottom of the screen. I guess people sent messages in for a sort of live chat session. I don’t know what kind of person participate in that sort of thing, but I have no idea what else it could have been. Did I mention that the girls on this program were not very attractive? Well, they weren’t. I have a link for you. It is NSFW, and I wouldn’t really recommend following it. I just feel the need to post it for completeness: Link