Welcome to Prague

Staying the Prague Hilton, Never again
Weird rules here for Lounge access. But if I cant get to the Lounge how will I survive.
Oh the $35 internet access is no bargain either.

They must have felt guilty
I got 2 fruit baskets, champagne and beer!

Some Prague scenes
Astro Clock                     OLd town sq

Scenes Of Warsaw

Sadly I left Warsaw today.

 

New condos next to Hilton   Citibank is big here, at Warsaw Airport and Prague too

 

They sell diet pepsi at the airport, it travels well I just finished it

The plane from Warsaw to Prague was empty

Final Post From Wasaw - Tiger's Phone

The phone keeps ringing, when I look its says Agent, Gillete and Accenture?

No calls from Phil Knight yet though

Warsaw Hilton Lounge for last time...

Had breakfast today after another workout at the great gym.
Fortunately no investment bankers were doing interviews this morning.
Clearly the evening English is better than the morning, I simply could not communicate with the nice ladies in the lounge today when I asked if they could print my boarding pass. I guess Kate cannot work around the clock.
I will have to leave for the airport sooner.

The fat guy was here again, weezing and eating - he has not changed his shirt in 2 days?

Dinner at Bellini

Kate in the lounge comes through.
I had a wonderful meal at Bellini in the Old Market Sq.

I started with a drink, Polish beer or course

Then Polish trickery

I ordered Brushetta, one mushroom, one tomatoes, one liver (Polish devils) and one artichoke which I actually ate, are you following me Suzanne?

Main course was chicken, with cheese, very tasty

Food was very good, and the service returned to normal, inattentve waiter reassured me I was home in Warsaw.

Then off to the casino.

Flash Update From The Hilton Lounge

Ok
Kate my new best Hilton Lounge Hostess has booked me dinner at an Italian Restaurant, Bellini,in Old Town. She says the owner has 7 highly toughted restaurants around town.

The atmosphere here is strange, last night Hip Hop Americans, today some more Americans again.
But the guy who is using the lounge to do interviews is back!

I dont know about you, but when I go to work for an Investment Bank I hope they interview me somewhere besides the Lounge at the Hilton.
Tonight's test subject, I mean, interviewee does not sound as stupid as the guy last night. He might actually help them.

Right behind me some creepy old guy (older than me) is "interviewing" some really young girl in a business suit - something tells me its not for Investment Banking.

Thoughtfully the lady from the Investment Bank who was working on her PPT for the big meeting tomorrow, and screaming into her cellphone while she participated in a con-call has left the lounge.
Its a lot quieter now.

Ugh - some big guy is sitting across the room and wheezing so loud I cant here the interviews going on? I think he should take off the hideous sweater he is wearing and go to the fine gym they have here.

Monday In Warsaw

Yes after a good nights sleep I got up at 9!
Got to the gym before 10. The gym at this hotel is awesome, huge and tons of equipment.

After that I asked for directions to the Gestapo Headquarters, its a museam now - anyway in the Hilton Lounge and the Concerige both told me where to go, they forgot to mention its closed Monday!!!!!

 This is the outside of the Gestopo HQ
And for a while it was the only thing I was going to see of it.
How do I get in, all doors are locked, use my cunning, my guile?
Nope Zloty's

I went to the gate becuase even though it was locked the door behind it was open, so I said Hello (yes in English).

Then my new best friend in Poland appeared.
He pointed to the wall and said "closed Monday and Tuesday" ah ha, clearly an English speaking friend.

.But after taking a couple of Pictures he was done, so I gave him some Zloty's.

He says "Private Tour" and he brought me inside.

This is a baby crib that was in the prison that the Gestapo ran at the HQ, I am not sure what the baby did , my new BF in Poland tried to explain but he used the last of his English explaining all the people were "kaput".

After about a 15 minute private tour I said goodbye, using all of my Polish.

By now I am really hungry, because I slept through the free breakfast.


This is the San Lorenzo in the Centrum.
Highly touted on Tripadvisor.com The San Lorenzo

I had an excellent pizza, we some diet coke, for $10!

But there is something wrong with the waitress, she provides good service! Clearly she requires retraining. Wait until I report her to the Politburo.




On the way back to the hotel I took a couple of photos of the skyline and the train station.

As you can see from the last photo, the Warsawites are ultra-efficient.

They will teach you English right next door where you can learn to eat like an American!

Next post, update from dinner and spellbinding time the Lounge with some lady screaming into her cellphone during a con call.