Holidays (sort of)
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I'm now sitting in the CD Lounge  at the Praha Hlavni Nadrazi (the main
railway station in  Prague, Czech Republic). The  state railway company
(CD) finally made a VIP waiting  room (the CD Lounge) here! They needed
many years  to to make it.  It's a shame  that in my (much  smaller and
much unimportant) city this thing is available and working for years.

Anyway, it's here so I'm able to sit in a comfortable chair, using free
WiFi and drinking free chocolate (and it's not that bad, after all!).

I have been returning from a conference in Italy (Riva del Garda). I it
a nice place  and not only for conferences. It's  not hot in September,
it's  relatively quiet  and it's  very clean.  Lot of  GREAT ice  cream
everywhere.

The conference hall  staff here is friendly and  intelligent here (they
know how  to use  air conditioning  properly so  it's probably  for the
first  time when  I'm returning  from a  conference in  Southern Europe
without health issues...).

There  Garda lake  is surrounded  by  hills and  mountains (many  great
hiking paths and via ferratas, too bat I had very little free time).

At least  I was able to  visit some old Austrian  fortresses inside the
city (all built between 1095-1915, I think).


The start  of trip was  a bit difficult. I  selected a train  which was
scheduled to  be in Prague about  2.5 hour before plane  departure. But
there was  accident in  Slovakia (the train  was an  international one)
which caused  delay no shorter  than 3 hours... Fortunately,  there was
later  but  faster  train  available.  It was  also  delayed  but  only
slightly. I had to  get a taxi from the railway  station to the airport
but I catch  the plane! The Italy  part of travel was much  easier - an
actual relax...

For the  trip back  I selected relatively  later train  because baggage
claim and such stuff is usually slow at the Prague airport. And the bus
to  the railway  station is  usually late  because of  traffic jams  in
Prague. Unusually,  everything was smooth. So  now I have same  time to
drink my chocolate and to write this post...