Moon Prague, Vienna & Budapest

Whether you're sipping Czech beer with locals or admiring gothic towers and hilltop castles, get to know these fairytale cities with Moon Prague, Vienna & Budapest. Inside you'll find:

• Flexible itineraries for 1 to 5 days in Prague, Vienna, and Budapest that can be combined into a longer trip
• Strategic advice for foodies, art lovers, history buffs, and more
• Must-see highlights and unique experiences: Spend an evening at the Prague National Theater absorbing the city's famed classical music, or sip pivo (beer) at a local Czech brewery. Soak in Budapest's thermal Széchenyi baths, admire the works of Klimt and Schiele in Vienna's glamourous galleries, and wander through labyrinthine Habsburg palaces. Get inspired at the John Lennon Wall (or add to it yourself!), shop for homemade crafts and snack on street food at a bustling holiday market, and walk across the romantic Charles Bridge as the sun sets over the Vltava
• Ideas for side trips from each city, including Liberec, Danube Bend, Lake Balaton, and the Kutná Hore Bone Church
• Honest insight from Budapest local Jennifer Walker and Prague local Auburn Scallon
• Full-color photos and detailed maps throughout
• Background information on the landscape, history, and cultural customs of each city
• Handy tools such as visa information, Hungarian, German, and Czech phrasebooks, and tips for traveling with children or as a senior

Experience these cities your way with Moon Prague, Vienna & Budapest's practical tips and local insight.

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Jennifer Walker is a British-Hungarian writer who grew up between Hungary and the UK. A PhD in Physics first took her to Madrid, Spain, where she stayed for 7 years. After casting off her hat as a nuclear physicist, Jennifer grabbed a new hat as a writer. She completed a journalism internship in Tbilisi, Georgia, before moving back to Budapest to reconnect with her Hungarian roots. She now mostly writes about travel, food, culture, and language in Central and Eastern Europe. She has written for National Geographic Travel, Conde Nast Traveler, Oxford Dictionaries, BBC Travel, The Guardian, and The Independent, among others. Although Hungary is in her blood, Vienna is her City of Dreams: its wide boulevards and old-world cafes continue to inspire her, as she walks in the footsteps of Klimt, Freud, and Mozart. She feels at home in Budapest's ruin bars and underground art hubs, Vienna's cafes and museums, and prefers to spend the summers under the colonnades in the historic spa towns of Central Europe rather than on the beach.

Like so many Prague transplants, Auburn Scallon came to the Czech Republic planning to stay for just one year. This worked out about as well as the notorious Czech suggestion to go out for just one beer. The Seattle native has lived in New York, New Zealand, Greece, Scotland, and Malta but as Franz Kafka eloquently observed, "Prague won't let you go, the little mother has claws."

Auburn loves surprising locals with stories of how a friendly wager pushed her to find reasons to visit each of the Czech Republic's fourteen regions. She has since spent the better part of a decade confirming the cliches (yes, the beer and the architecture are both mind-blowing) and falling in love with the undiscovered quirks of the country. Come for the Pilsner, stay for the Moravian wine and local spirits. Enjoy the pastel facades by day, delight in the affordable excellence of the performing arts by night.

With a BA in Marketing and Master's research in Adult Education for Social Change, Auburn is passionate about encouraging travel as a cross-cultural learning opportunity. Her freelance writings on the arts, food, culture, and living abroad have appeared in The Independent, Prague Visitor, Expats.cz, Flydoscope, Brisbane Courier-Mail and official content for Czech Tourism. She hopes to encourage visitors to look beyond photo ops to find the Prague experiences that they'll fall in love with. Consider yourself warned, however, that you just might start considering how to stay longer than you ever expected.