So... errr.. ummmm... yah... I went to Prague last week.... not for vacation though... this was work related.  Stopping in at the Sun offices in Prague was great.  Some really interesting people working there, and it's a very nice location/office.

Prague.... how do I feel about Prague as a city and a destination?  Well... it's a stunningly beautiful old world European city.  It has all those old elements of what many people think of when they picture Europe in their minds... old buildings, amazing architecture, statues on bridges... Prague also.. is... ummm... not sure of the right word or description here... something about the city feels a bit out of place like pebble in a poorly fitting shoe.  It is badly overrun with tourists (I don't like overly touristy places), and has a real strange mix of massive modernization and growth mixed in with places where time stopped a couple of centuries ago.

Thee things that I liked:

• The dark beer that I had in the restaraunt the first night I was there
  
• The metro system
• The architecture in the old town
  

Thee things that amused me (in one way or another):

• The animated dancing stick figure on the side of a building
• The brazen druggies in KFC doing lines of coke on one of the restaurant tables
• The persistent touts out in front of the many many "clubs" and "cabarets"

Three things that surprised me:

• The brazen druggies in KFC doing lines of coke on one of the restaurant tables
• The cost of things (much much higher than I expected)
• The blandness of traditional Czech food (at least what I ate was bland)

• The smoking.. oiy, the Czech people smoke.. way too much

(I know, that makes 4 things that surprised me, but... )