The Czech Republic has a highly developed culture.

The Czech Republic (click here)  is as central Europe as you can get. It’s a crossroads of Germanic and Slavic culture mixed in a Cuisinart and blended to Czechia perfection. The country is filled with the world’s best breweries, quaint vineyards, and fairy-tale castles. It’s been very high on the “backpacker’s favorite” list since the early 1990s. So the locals are used to foreigners traipsing around their land. Prague hit peak expat life in the early aughts when just the American expat population reached 45,000. That number has gone down to a more manageable 10,000 American expats after stricter visa rules were enacted. So it’s not quite the bacchanal it was 10 to 15 years ago, but the country still has a lot to offer the casual tourist or adventurous vagabond....

...Czech beer deserves to be at the top of anyone’s beer bucket list. There simply isn’t a better place in the world to drink the hoppy lager they call Pilsner. Head over to Plzeň near the German border. The Pilsner Urquell factory tour is the ideal place to drink the freshest pilsner in the world. They also do something very special from that factory. In the Czech Republic, and even in Berlin now, you can find what is called a Tankovna. This is a beer bar where the beer is shipped in tanker trucks as quickly as possible to the bar. Once there, it is transferred into huge, airtight plastic bags inside steel or copper tanks at the bar. The beer doesn’t hit air until it is first poured into your glass. It’s the freshest, most beautiful pilsner you will ever drink. Try Lokal in Prague, or wander the streets of any Czech city to discover a yet-unknown favorite.

The Czech Republic also has a very distinct wine region in Moravia. For 1,800 years, this tiny region in the southern tip of the country has been producing seriously good wines. Villages hold harvest festivals and release young wines every season. Few people think of great wine when they think of the Czechs. That will soon change.