About This Site

Who I Am

My name is Daniel Horak. I grew up in Prague, spent several years working in Vienna, and have been driving back and forth across Czech Republic more times than I can accurately count. I currently live in the Vinohrady district of Prague.

I am not a professional travel writer. I work in logistics, which means I spend a lot of time thinking about routes, timing, and what can go wrong. That habit of mind turned out to be useful when I started writing about driving.

Why I Started Writing

The immediate cause was a conversation with a colleague who was planning a road trip through South Bohemia and kept asking me questions I had already answered for three other people that year. At some point it made more sense to write it down once properly than to repeat myself.

The deeper reason is that most travel writing about Czech Republic focuses on Prague and ignores the rest of the country, or treats the rest of the country as a list of UNESCO sites to photograph and leave. The places I find most interesting — the wine country around Znojmo, the fish pond landscapes of Trebon, the Sumava forest — rarely appear in the guides aimed at visitors.

Driving is the only way to reach most of them properly. Public transport in rural Czech Republic is limited, and organized tours do not go where I am describing. So the car becomes the point of the whole thing.

How I Approach This

I only write about places and routes I have personally driven. I do not accept sponsored content or free accommodation in exchange for coverage. When I recommend a rental company or a parking lot or a fuel stop, it is because I have used it and found it reliable.

I also try to be honest about the things that are genuinely difficult — the parking situation in Cesky Krumlov, the traffic on the D1 on Sunday evenings, the insurance traps that rental companies rely on visitors not reading carefully. These are real problems and pretending they do not exist does not help anyone.

Updates and Accuracy

Road conditions, rental company policies, and parking regulations change. I update the guides when I notice something has changed or when a reader points out an error. Each guide shows the date it was last updated.

If you find something that is out of date or incorrect, please use the contact page to let me know. I read every message.

Contact

For questions, corrections, or to share your own experiences driving in Czech Republic, reach me at the contact page or directly at daniel.horak@rakiviluxsys.eu.