I love traveling alone but sometimes you feel a bit of a disconnect from where you're going because you're sort of drifting from moment-to-moment/place-to-place without necessarily having truly substantive interactions. Well, a couple nights at Marketa's place resolved all that for me.

Marketa belongs in the Airbnb Hall of Fame. She is supremely kind and considerate but also incredibly intelligent and funny. English speakers will enjoy her company as she is hyper fluent in the language and variants of english-speaking culture (she's got Italian too and probably others I don't know about). She'll give you your space if you want it but if you're feeling social she treats you as a guest in her house in the most sincere manner. Her hospitality will make you feel even more reticent to leave Prague. She went out of her way to share Prague with me and I feel so grateful that she did that for me. She also has an amazing flatmate, Milan, who is equally brilliant and will seriously crack you up if you get him talking.

She's about 20 min from the city center by a Tram that is super duper close to her apartment and only about 15 min from the train station. It's a great location... away from the fray but convenient. I can't imagine a better choice than staying with Marketa. I can't imagine having missed out!