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Yes, this is a promo vid for a Stag tour operator, so there’s certainly some Borat-like skewing going on here. It’s already a cliché though that East Europe has hotter babes than the West.

Eastern Europe vs. UK Clubs

That explains the tens of thousands of sex tourists that have invaded
in the last five years, hoping for a quickie with a Slavic lovely, or even
the chance to bag a sizzling hot girlfriend by flashing their Euros and
talking up a swank bachelor pad in London or Milan to invite them
back for a week or more.

While that might have worked even three years ago, the truth is that
as Eastern Europe has been integrated into the EU, those Euros and foreign
passports have lost their flash. Also, many of the young, gorgeous things
that were trapped in their cheesy, local clubs playing bad 80s pop, and
forced to date the local, mullet-headed ‘cool’ boys or the stray Italians
or Brits that made it over have already hightailed it abroad and are
most likely working the tap at your local pub.

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Although I have to admit that there is sometimes a lack of glamour in Prague, it seems that times are a changing. With young fashion designers determined to push the envelope, this city is hopefully gonna be back on the fashion map.

This week, Leeda fashion house is opening their newly reconstructed store at Bartolomejska street. Here are few images from their new collection, which was made in cooperation with the emigre Czech architect Jan Kaplicky (yes, the one who made the great National library design and won the international competition, only to be rejected by the conservative political mafia) from Future Systems studio.

In our upcoming ‘East is Sexy’ issue in July we will bring you the entire fashion shoot.

How long have we been telling you all to get along to the Space:Garage bar/club in the Riga district of Andrejsala? Too long. And how many of you have listened? Not nearly enough. You’ve been lazing around in your trendy Berlin kiez, tripping out at dayclubs until the afternoon, sleeping in parks in the sunshine, waiting for the world to come to you - haven’t you? Well, your tactic worked.

Riga’s Space:Garage crew visited Berlin’s ZMF bar on Friday April 25 for a special “Riga Party”, organized by our friends at Pixelfestival. Unfortunately the venue wasn’t nearly as authentically cramped, steamy, sexy and trashy as Andrejsala, the dockside squat where the DJs normally play. But then again, nothing could match the atmosphere of Space:Garage on a Friday night.

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