Bridgwater Students Uncover Czech History

Signing the Clash Day proclamation live on (American) air

Bridgwater College has sent numerous groups with us over the years to various locations. One of the most popular is the history/sociology group of Ian Luckhurst. This year they came to Prague and looked at the second world war, the years of communism, modern Czech Republic and even took part in a link up with KEXP Radio Seattle to celebrate International Clash Day.
 and visited an ice hockey game at the Slavia Prague Eden stadium

MON 6 Feb	Honza Muzik tells the story of the Prague Own arrangements to Bristol airport by 0530  Easyjet (EZY6265) Dep 0730 arr 1030    1100 met by Brian + bus (PRAGOTOURS ) 1100 –1200   BUS TO Hotel Carol  Kurta Konráda 12 Praha 9 Czech Republic Phone +420 284 019 911    1300 tram to centre ;-Familiarisation tour of Prague -Theme;- Historic Prague (Namesti republiky/civic house/powder tower/old town square/jewish quarter/charles bridge/Castle) 1730 return by tram to hotel ;-  1900 evening meal  Restaurace u Brázdů – Švejk (5 minutes from hotel)
TUES  7 Feb	Clash Day in Prague 08.00 0900 BREAKFAST                                 09.00-1200  school visit 1200-1400 free time in centre for lunch                    1400 to Vrsovice district 1500-1800 CLASH DAY-V Lesu Krymská 12, Praha 10 – Vršovice. This is a rock venue/café which we have booked for these 3 hours. We will be linking live with radio KEXP in Seattle. Theme will be punk rock and it’s influence in USA/UK and Czech republic. Czech musicians will be present and some of us will be interviewed. There will be a discussion involving the students 1700 meal will be at venue 1800 return to hotel   Evening free
WED 8 Feb	Remembering the Children of Lidice 0800-0900   BREAKFAST     Velvet revolution & Communism themed day Walking tour of velvet revolution + communism + Lenka Phillipova (Lecturer at Charles uni) > Wenceslas Sq. (Palach's memorial, hotel Jalta, Melantrich), Národní třída, have a look at the Theatre on the Balustrade (where Havel started as a playwriter) than across the river towards the Kampa park and the John Lennon's Wall, memorial to Václav Havel,small museum of surveillance in St. Nicolas belfry 1300-1430 free time for lunch + Optional  Museum of anti-Communism 1500 return to hotel for break  1700 to Vrsovice   by tram> Eden Arena, a.s.U Slavie 1540/2a 100 00 Prague 10  (Slavia tram stop) 1800 ice hockey game  AT Eden Slavia v Usti nad labem Vladivostocká 1460/10, Praha 10 - Vršovice, 2100  (tram slavia>Prubezna) 2130 meal at Strašnická mincovna - nekuřácká restaurace U Hráze 125/27, Praha 10 Strašnice Tram / metro back to Ceskomoravska (40 mins)
THURS 9 Feb	Bumping into some old friends -Dagmar, Pavla and Neil 0800 BREAKFAST        0900 >   World war 2 themed day-  0930 site of attentat (Heydrich assassination) 1030 to the Krypt   1100 Krypt- Národní památník hrdinů heydrichiády:  open 9am-5pm (free entry) 1200-1300 free time Afternoon ; -National Memorial on the Vítkov hill (built as a memorial to the Czech WWI Resistance, later  Monument of the Victory of the Working Class and briefly a mausoleum of Klement Gottwald). It requires some walking. Great view. Return to hotel by 1700 1900 tram to Dejvice for Bowling  ( Bílá 6, Praha 6 tel.: 774 900 004 www.bowling-dejvice.cz 2000 – 2230 Bowling;-We have exclusive use of 3 lanes + Czech guests + pizza for evening meal 2230 return to Ceskomoravska
FRI 10 Feb	Re-enacting the Heydrich assassination on the actual site 0800 BREAKFAST                             1000  day trip by BUS>>TEREZIN (45mins) 1100-1245 1245-1345 Terezin >Lidice  (1 hour) via Velvary a Kamenny most 1345-1445  LIDICE.museum and free time on site 1445 Lidice to airport (15 mins) Be at airport by 1500 Prague To Bristol; EASYJET flight 6268 dep. 1700 arr 1815