After a busy week the last days in Prague are devoted to catching up on work and taking care of any last minute preparation for the transfer to Belgrade. I went to the now familiar Kavarna Zanzibar for a slow breakfast and to catch up on reading before heading to K10 to do some work. We had a town hall meeting at the vineyard near K10, Vinicni altan, to discuss travel plans. It was a cute place and the view is very nice, I would have liked to have lingered but I had to head back to K10 and continue working. In the evening we had our farewell event at Restaurant Jelica BioGurmania which featured an acrobatic performance and a Bollywood dance performance by some of our fellow remotes who killed it despite having only a couple of practice sessions. Facing another busy day and still feeling a little under the weather I called it an early night and made it home just after midnight, woot.

All travel today, not very exciting. Early flight to Barcelona from Geneva with a long layover before connecting back “home” to Prague in the evening and heading right to bed. I will say this, though. The Barcelona airport is gorgeous, possibly nicer than DEN. There seemed to be an odd lack of chairs, however, which makes admission to the Pau Casals lounge rather critical if you’re stuck there for any amount of time.

More driving, albeit less than yesterday, as we headed down to Geneva for the evening. Lake Geneva is gorgeous but the town itself bears no comparison to Prague. We had lunch at the Four Seasons restaurant which was great but mind-blowingly expensive. ($30 per glass of champagne!? $50 for a burger!?) Once again we strolled around town to see some of the major tourist sites like the flower clock. We did a cruise around the lake which was very affordable by Swiss standards and included some great views of the surrounding mountains. Another recommended activity. There were planes to catch in the morning so once again it was an early/work related evening.

Today was dominated by the back roads dominated and very scenic drive to Zurich. By the time we arrived all of the late evenings was catching up with me so we called it a fairly early evening with a walk around down town and some dinner at a simple brat place. On the square where we stayed near the Opera House there is a place called Moevenpick Ice Cream which I highly recommend… if you feel like spending $50 on some ice cream. Of course, this is about part for the course for Switzerland. Don’t expect to be able to leave your room for less than that regardless of what you’re doing.

A fairly early start to the day had us headed down to the Prague train station to catch a train to Regensburg to see my all time best friend and free range degenerate, Peter. Naturally we ended up sitting next to a mother and daughter from Idaho on the train and chatting with them helped pass the time. I had to do some work after we got to Regensberg and checked into our hotel but after that we met up with Peter and went out for a pretty steadily escalating evening that concluded with us sitting on the banks of the river having beers around two or three am. Having not heard from Peter since seeing him there I can only assume he fell in after I left.

The first time I went to check out Prague castle and St. Vitus Cathedral they were out of audio tours. As a guy who likes to know every single thing about the sights I’m seeing I couldn’t let this stand. So today we went back and picked up some audio tours. I didn’t realize it was a thing but we happened up right at the changing of the guard at noon which was very cool as well. We spent the afternoon at a cafe in the garden of the castle doing some work before attempting another early evening so we could catch a train in the morning.

Anyone who knows me probably knows that I hate the zoo. Denver has a great zoo. But after being drug down there to trudge through the hot sun every year of my young life I’d had about enough of the whole experience. I say this to underscore how serious I am when I say that the Prague zoo is awesome. You could easily spend a day, maybe two, there. We dedicated one to it today and it was excellent. After that it was over to a cafe to do some work and then home for further productivity. In the evening there we went to an open air performance by the Prague philharmonic that was held on the square in front of Prague castle overlooking the city. After that it was a quick dinner at Bruxx and another attempt at an early evening.

There was some work to be caught up on today so sadly that dominated the agenda. Spent some time at Cafe Monolok and Cafe La Boheim with some coffee and reliable WiFi to be productive. In the evening there was more walking through old town and a very intimate classical concert off of old town square. After the concert we hit Black Angels for cocktails which I highly recommend to anyone visiting Prague.

Back on the eventful end of the spectrum I headed out to the airport to collect one cute girl and take her back to Prague. After several weeks of construction induced sleep deprivation I thought a night a way from that was in order so I booked a hotel for the evening. I had to do some work for a while but then in the evening we walked past the Lennon Wall, over the Charles Bridge and around Old Town before calling it a semi-early evening by Prague standards.