Where I Go: The Playground That Helped Make Prague Feel Like Home
On the Plastic Benches of Výtoň’s Park, I Watched Our Sons Play and Let My Imagination Roam
In 2013, my wife and I rented an apartment in Výtoň, a classic urban neighborhood south of the tourist-packed city center of Prague. This wasn’t my first move to the capital of the Czech Republic. As a historian, I had been coming to Prague for short spells each summer for 10 years running. But, eager to explore, I always chose a different neighborhood to live in. My only fixed points were friends’ homes, a few locally admired pubs, and the archives that justified these trips to one of the world’s …
