Pleasant was the surprise when with Dace we discovered a group of Czechs enjoying a wine in the middle of the street, without guilt or fright. Logically, we did the same.
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The detail serves to illustrate what has seemed to us to be the Czech secret of the good life, letting go, allowing, not prohibiting.
In every country we visit, the rules change. What is good here, is not in another. Latin countries, accustomed to regulations, have a different model in the Czech Republic.
On the other hand, the Czechs have a special affiliation with alcohol, a common joke here says that representatives of three beer brands arrive at a bar: Guinness, Heineken and the Czech Pilsner Urquell. The Guinness brand calls for Guiness because it is made from carefully selected ingredients. The Heineken man orders Heineken because it is produced according to the only correct recipe. The Pilsner Urquel representative asks for a coke. Seeing that his colleagues look at him strangely, he explains: Yes, you. They don't drink beer, well neither do I.
Czechs drink between 150 and 160 liters of beer a year, which is about half a liter a day. The 365 days of the year. An average that is made including the entire population. Of any age.
But that does not mean disorder or altercations, everything seems to be under selfcontrol, everything is allowed and does not cause problems. The Czechs know how to use freedom without falling into debauchery.
The Prague Spring was a period of political liberalization and mass protest in Czechoslovakia as a socialist state after World War II. It began on January 5, 1968, when the reformist Alexander Dubček was elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and continued until August 21 of the same year, when the Soviet Union and other members of the Warsaw Pact invaded the country to suppress the reforms.
A lot has happened since then but, from what we have seen, there is nothing better for the good life in the Czech Republic, than to indulge yourself without disturbing anyone, that is the Czech secret of the good life.
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I am Gustavo Llusá, Argentine, after traveling for several years to more than 50 countries, I settled in Latvia where I got married and learned to know another way of life, on the other side of the map.

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