Helen Martin: Edinburgh could learn a lot from Prague
The restaurants and bars offered polite, friendly service and low prices, and local transport was cheap as chips.
Needless to say, that wasn’t Edinburgh. It was a short break in Prague booked through a long-standing local travel agency based in Leith.
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Hide AdEven our hotel, the K+K Central, was a work of art like most of the buildings, which made Edinburgh look bland. Oh, and of course the city has a tourist tax. All the locals under about 40 spoke fluent English and were smiling and helpful with directions and local information.
That’s one fact-finding mission for Edinburgh councillors I might even bless in the hope that they learned something from it.