Welcome to easy stories in English, the podcast that will take your English from ok to good and from good to great.
I am Ariel Goodbody, your host for this show.
Today's story is for intermediate learners.
The name of the story is the Golem of Prague.
You can find a transcript of the episode@easystoriesinenglish.com Golem that's easystoriesinenglish.com golem.
G o l e m this contains the full story as well as my conversation before it.
Today's story is set in Prague, a city which I love.
If you don't know, Prague is the capital of the Czech Republic.
Or I should say the capital of Czechia because Czechia or Czechia, I'm not sure how you say it, the country recently changed its name, I think a few years ago.
Now it sounds more similar to Slovakia and Slovenia.
Czechia is a country in the centre of Europe and Prague is a large capital with around a million inhabitants.
I visited it quite a few years ago and I absolutely loved it.
It's a creepy and gothic city with beautiful old architecture and the world's largest castle complex.
So there's not only a castle, but a whole kind of old city walled inside the castle area and it's very beautiful and interesting to visit.
If you like big beer then it's also a fantastic place to go because as with Germany and the Netherlands, Czechia has very good beer and quite cheap beer as well.
It also has fantastic public transport and this is something that interests me.
I don't drink beer, but I love the public transport in Prague.
It is night and day.
Compared to England, night and day means it's completely different.
The public transport in the UK is overpriced, constantly late and in generally quite bad condition.