Paco´s Life: Madrid » Prage http://thecaptainflint.com Mon, 11 May 2009 22:08:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en Prage http://thecaptainflint.com/2006/11/15/prage/langswitch_lang/en/ http://thecaptainflint.com/2006/11/15/prage/langswitch_lang/en/#comments Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:11:26 +0000 Paco http://thecaptainflint.com/2006/11/20/prage/ With some delay but here it comes the post concerning the first ICEX european meeting. The Warsav - Prague - Stockholm triangle, also known as the three magic kings got together for the first time in the beautiful chezq capital. With the participation of more ICEX people coming from the Warsav and Prage offices and the adding of Giorgos, the meeting was a big thing. It is a pity that this happened a few weeks ago and I dont remember it so clearly anymore, maybe also because of the theory of big Guerri - Warsav who believes that in a rainny day the only thing you can do is to stay at the bar drinking beer. So we did, it also happens that the chezq beer is excellent and very cheap, for less than a euro you get a litter. Gambrinus, Pilsner and the rest of the local brands were entusiastically drunk by the ICEX congregation which, by the way, happened to be very nice people. The ones coming from Poland had just arrived after one night travelling by train but they were still up to the challenge

The three magic kings…

ICEX Meeting

Guerrino and Roberto, two big characters

The truth is that we spent most of the weekend drinking beers and mojitos, eating the delicious chezq food..and of course doing some tourism and partying pretty hard. As I was expecting, Prage is a very nice place, the area arround the castle is beautiful so it is the King Charles bridge and the central square.

Central square

Prage´s view from the castle

However, a couple of bad things. First the excessive ammount of tourists arround, it is quite difficult to move arround in the city centre and the famouse Charles bridge is always very crowed, well, as long as you dont get there when is rainning very heavily. The second problem is probably a consequence of the first one, chezq people is in general very unfriendly. I just mean the waittres serving you at the bars, I dont know how they are in their personal life. Is not that I am specially demanding with this but some of them were really rude. Maybe there are very tired of having so much foreign people arround, otherways I dont understand that behaviour

Anyway, with rude czeqs or withouth them it was a great frist trip, it had everything, including a great mistake which cost me a fortune. I was stupid enough to get confused with my flight time and I missed it. I had to waste a lot of money in buying another ticket for going the next day. And this didnt happen because I was partying, drunk or something like that, is just that I was not able to read the proper departing time in the email. So that extra night we had to go out again :-) Anyway, it was a real mess, I must be getting old and stupid…

All pictures here

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