From the New Europe: Eating bugs and worms because you can afford it
The luxury restaurant market in the Czech Republic is apparently looking for new, creative ways to cater to their clients and be "distinguishable from others."
The strategy? Putting insects as an item on luxury restaurants menus, the Prague Daily Monitor reports. The Brno restaurant manager Martin Kobylka says: "We want to shock people. A lobster, a crab or a crawfish are offered everywhere, but a cricket in caramel or a chocolate cake with a cockroach are unavailable in this country for now." (I love that the name Kobylka actually means grasshopper in Czech. It is about the coolest name for a guy who wants to market mainstream insect-eating.)
Chocolate cake with a cockroach sounds like a delightful way to end a first date. Especially if you are really not that into her.

Perhaps never before has the Czech Republic been so divided over a piece of architecture.
The world is definitely about to get fully automated any day now. Just yesterday,
It is still a fairly common cliche in Prague: a backpacker with a beat up copy of Milan Kundera's 1984 novel 
They don't call the D1, the major Czech highway, a "death trap" for nothing. Yesterday morning amidst a surprising spring snow storm which brought down as much as one inch of snow within minutes, the D1 turned into a bloody mess. Lucky me, I drove to Prague from Moravia just hours before the accident happened.















