Crossword-Solution: VLTAVA 6 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

GERMAN RIVERS INTERNATIONALIZED "The Elbe from the junction of the Vltava, the Vitava from Prague, the Oder from Oppa, the Niemen from Grodno, and the Danube from Ulm are declared international, together with their connections.

Two of these waterways meet just above Prague, the Vltava and Berounka; they open out from the wooded heights of the Bohemian Forest, the former river leading up towards a pass in those heights over which you descend to the Danube near Linz, the latter showing the way into the heart of Bohemia from the west from Bavaria.

The Czechs are just a bit sparing of vowels; they prefer a good fat cluster of consonants, as, for instance, in Vltava, Brno, and other such pretty names, but then you simply insert an indefinite sound here and there between the spiky consonants, and all is well; anyone who knows Hindustani or Arabic will find it quite easy.

Another fine broad road leading to Prague is the Elbe, into which flows the Vltava, some thirty miles north of the capital.

You should travel to Prague when the days are long, so you will be rewarded by a very fair view as the train crosses the placid River Vltava.