Snow, Support, Shots & Slivovice
Busy week. Leadership team in town for 3 days. Meetings, meetings & playing host in a city we're settling into.
Monday: People flew in from Dusseldorf, New York, New Delhi and Sydney. Thought after travel & day of meetings people would retire & we'd get an early night. I was wrong !! We ended up at the Kolkovna (http://www.kolkovna.cz/en/main.htm) restuarant having several pivos, Czech sausages, goulash & Becherovka (http://www.becher.cz/en/becherovka.php) shots. We staggered out & walked down to Old Town square heading towards home but half the crew ended up going to Charles bridge whilst others (including me) headed towards Jama (http://www.jamapub.cz/en/). We all decided to call it a night & I arrived home about 11:30pm just in time to receive a phone call from the bridge team who ended up at the Prague Castle wondering where we were. Bugger off was my answer & I went to bed.
Tuesday: More work, ho-hum. The only highlight of interest was it started to snow & that the team went out to the Pilsen restuarant at Obecnidum (http://www.obecni-dum.cz/e_index.htm). The best part was that 'J' was invited aswell & had a ball eating Bohemian duck & Czech riesling. Then came the shots - Slivovice (http://www.vmp.cz/images/nabizime/slivovice2.jpg) - last time I had this on my previous trip it tasted like dirty Russian vodka. This time it was chilled (you cold see shards of ice) & must have been the good stuff as it went down pretty easy. Now your probably wondering where N was during these festivities. We've got a baby sitter ! Yep, one of the teams girlfriends (Ansgar & Nadine) offered - we promptly accepted & paid in Aussie wine. Therefore, after the restuarant we headed home to see if N was still awake entertaining the sitters - she was not & everything went well.
Wednesday: Awoke to snow covered windows & back patio. Wandered to work not trying to fall arse over tit & look like a real wally. 2-3 inches of snow everywhere. Once at work I found out that the airport had closed & a very senior manager that was expected (not from our group) could not make it - bit of a sigh of relief from all ;-). The office said the airport would be open by 10am. Meetings went well, meeting the office manager & finding out that the average age of people in the office was 35 ! Feel like a real old codger now - just need grey hair. 4pm arrived & I checked to find out the airport was still closed & we had 8 very nervous people in the room wondering if they'd make the 7pm flight - they did & I trudged back across the snow street to our new apartment & a giant snowman on the back patio.
Thursday: Played catchup at work then meet J, N & Christiane (my old boss) for lunch. Kind of nice being close to the city centre. Home at a reasonable time, Uno, read the Ikea catalogue again & bed !
Friday: Work starting to gear up now. We started a trial support day for 1st level activities. All went well. Next week will be the test. Arrived home with a bottle of merlot from Chile ($89 Kc - $5 AUD) to a home cooked meal. Setup the wireless CDMA (1-4 Mb link) internet connection & started to update the blog.
Monday: People flew in from Dusseldorf, New York, New Delhi and Sydney. Thought after travel & day of meetings people would retire & we'd get an early night. I was wrong !! We ended up at the Kolkovna (http://www.kolkovna.cz/en/main.htm) restuarant having several pivos, Czech sausages, goulash & Becherovka (http://www.becher.cz/en/becherovka.php) shots. We staggered out & walked down to Old Town square heading towards home but half the crew ended up going to Charles bridge whilst others (including me) headed towards Jama (http://www.jamapub.cz/en/). We all decided to call it a night & I arrived home about 11:30pm just in time to receive a phone call from the bridge team who ended up at the Prague Castle wondering where we were. Bugger off was my answer & I went to bed.
Tuesday: More work, ho-hum. The only highlight of interest was it started to snow & that the team went out to the Pilsen restuarant at Obecnidum (http://www.obecni-dum.cz/e_index.htm). The best part was that 'J' was invited aswell & had a ball eating Bohemian duck & Czech riesling. Then came the shots - Slivovice (http://www.vmp.cz/images/nabizime/slivovice2.jpg) - last time I had this on my previous trip it tasted like dirty Russian vodka. This time it was chilled (you cold see shards of ice) & must have been the good stuff as it went down pretty easy. Now your probably wondering where N was during these festivities. We've got a baby sitter ! Yep, one of the teams girlfriends (Ansgar & Nadine) offered - we promptly accepted & paid in Aussie wine. Therefore, after the restuarant we headed home to see if N was still awake entertaining the sitters - she was not & everything went well.
Wednesday: Awoke to snow covered windows & back patio. Wandered to work not trying to fall arse over tit & look like a real wally. 2-3 inches of snow everywhere. Once at work I found out that the airport had closed & a very senior manager that was expected (not from our group) could not make it - bit of a sigh of relief from all ;-). The office said the airport would be open by 10am. Meetings went well, meeting the office manager & finding out that the average age of people in the office was 35 ! Feel like a real old codger now - just need grey hair. 4pm arrived & I checked to find out the airport was still closed & we had 8 very nervous people in the room wondering if they'd make the 7pm flight - they did & I trudged back across the snow street to our new apartment & a giant snowman on the back patio.
Thursday: Played catchup at work then meet J, N & Christiane (my old boss) for lunch. Kind of nice being close to the city centre. Home at a reasonable time, Uno, read the Ikea catalogue again & bed !
Friday: Work starting to gear up now. We started a trial support day for 1st level activities. All went well. Next week will be the test. Arrived home with a bottle of merlot from Chile ($89 Kc - $5 AUD) to a home cooked meal. Setup the wireless CDMA (1-4 Mb link) internet connection & started to update the blog.
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