Ferrets abroad

THE ECONOMIST (UK) -

Head for Prague. There, as www.praguepissup.com, a website dedicated to bringing lads to the Czech capital, points out, "an all nighter costs less than five quid!" and "a night exercising the ferret costs 30 quid!" A slew of companies now bring groups of British men to Prague for a weekend of lap-dancing and pub crawls. The cultural highlight is a brewery tour (Czechs claim to have invented lager).

The city police have increased their numbers and are improving their language skills to deal with weekend rowdies. The British embassy concedes that budget flights have brought a new type of tourist to Prague, along with a sharp increase in the consular workload: lads visiting brothels often get their passports stolen.

The problem is not likely to go away. EasyJet whose subsidiary, Go, serves Prague is planning to expand its service to the Czech Republic next year to five flights a day.

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