Park life
Local families love Prague’s excellent playgrounds, found in just about every corner of the city. In Malá Strana, stop by the shaded sandbox at the nearly hidden Dětské Hřiště (Children’s Playground) on Kampa Island, or find a similar site on the Old Town side of the river at Slovanský ostrov, aka Žofín, also home to a working, pint-size train line. In warm weather, families swear by the massive Gutovka sport center in the outlying district of Strašnice, home to rock-climbing walls, a skatepark and an extensive ‘waterworld’, with running streams, dams and sluices, where children can play (and cool off) to their hearts’ content.