I had to go to Prague for a 3 day Global Peronnel & Organization Conference with my buiness unit. Since it was from Monday night to Thursday morning and you had to fly to London firsts to get to Prague, we figured we would have a 3 day getaway in London especially since it was right around our anniversary and we only had to pay for one night in the hotel (the company picked up the rest). So for one night at the Marriott Park Lane and John's flight ticket we were able to have another discount European vacation!!
Friday night we left PHL at about 9PM (which I suggest to anyone flying internationally - take the latest possible flight) We were actually able to sleep 5 out of the 7 hrs there. When we arrived in London local time 9am, our time 4am. We went straight to the hotel dropped pur luggage then grabbed some breakfast.
We stayed right by the Marble Arch so we were conveniently located by the TUBE (their subway) that takes you everywhere - even though we basically could have walked to almost everything including Buckingham Palace and the London Eye.
Monday I went to the Basingstoke, England Mars Drinks office to meet everyone - it was great to see all of the people in person I have been working with for the past 6 months. Monday night we all flew to Prague, Czech Republic. It was nice having John with me - made me less homesick!
Unfortunately, Prague was not as much as I expected it to be. There were a lot of really neat castles, almost like the Magic Kingdom in Disney World, but besides for that it is just a really old town. It was neat to learn of the history from the plant manager at the Porici, Czech site when we got our plant tour. Basically, up until 1989, Czechoslovakia was a communist country and when the Berlin wall was torn down they became free. Their unemployment rate is actually crucially low because of the industrial boom.
I have to admit, seeing towns that are really old are cool, but there were no official landmarks that we were looking for that really caught our eye, except for the Astronomical Clock - that was neat! Definitely not a place I would go back to, but glad I had the opportunity to go. We would however go back to London, we had so much fun!
I will post a link to the photos soon!
1 comment:
So awesome!!! I am jealous that you get to do all that great traveling - who knew how great leaving CAH would be?!?!?
It's so wonderful for you and John to be able to do so much before the little ones start coming - kiss the freedom goodbye when they start popping on the scene!!
Great picture of you - you look so cute with your little hat on!
Hopefully Maine doesn't disappoint you guys - after seeing the WORLD!
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