These make it easy for people to travel and, especially in the past, for goods to be traded between places. Czech land is also good for farming, allowing a lot of vegetables to be grown in the country!
Something interesting is that there is a big spa culture here! There are a lot of natural mineral springs (where mineral-rich water emerges from the ground and forms warm pools), and "spa towns" have been built around them. They are said to have had therapeutic (healing) purposes for hundreds of years.
Climate change has made the Czech Republic significantly hotter, meaning its summers are less mild, and its winters are warmer. This has eliminated much of the skiing culture that used to exist, and the lack of snow (and, therefore, snowmelt) causes many droughts. There are also worries about protecting forests in the region (even more so in Hungary than in Czechia) because there is a lot of illegal cutting down of trees.
To adapt to environmental concerns, one thing that Czech people have gotten pretty good at is recycling. At home, we normally separate our trash and recycling, but there is a more complicated system here. Recycling gets separated into plastic, paper, metal and food waste to ensure everything is disposed of in the right way.
