Prague Visit

Just been in Prague for 36 hours - it was only supposed to be for 36 hours but the first plane we were on this morning got turned round after about 15 mins in the air as the de-icing system wasn't working and then we had to sit aorund for 4 hrs pretending to be happy to pay 135Kr for a beer which when we had been out in the city centre the night before had been 26Kr - airport inflation is pretty high in Prague obviously

Stayed in the most bizarre hotel last night - one that certainly helped to expand on the image of Prague as a gothic city - the photo attached is of what I found in my room when I checked in! Not what I would normally expect to find in a hotel room on a business trip but might insist that my room has one from now on!!

Rupert and I were invited to join the office Christmas party which we duly did - except for the first 45 mins, we were at the wrong party - right building, wrong floor which was a lightly odd - we had a suspicion we were in the wrong place as the others there didn't look much like the media types we had spent the day with but we figured we might just have been unfashionably early!! Anyway having made our excuses we got to the right one in the end - just in time for the team karaoke sessions which was the final activity in the office power league (football, darts, skating, curling, go karting etc) and when you see the head of finance and 3 other very senior buyers recreating some Czech equivalent of Boyzone then life in the office is never going to be the same again - very very amusing

Woke up this morning to find about 6 inches of snow on the balcony of the hotel and it didn't stop the whole time we were stuck in the airport - but get back to Budapest and there is not a cloud in the sky and certainly no sign of snow - can't explain that really although someone did try and tell me it was because of the mountains!!