AT LEAST Slavek the hippo enjoyed the floods. Finally rescued last weekend from the roof of the elephant house at Prague zoo, he was a little hungry but otherwise happy after a two-day wallow in the muddy waters of the River Vltava. Not so contented were the people of Prague and numerous other towns along the Vltava and other tributaries of the Elbe.
Only last month they were celebrating their river. The first International Elbe Swimming Day saw thousands enter the river in recognition of a huge clean-up effort by the Czech Republic and Germany, which over the past decade…
