Hey folks,
we’ve just returned, after an adventurous journey over Geneva, from Prague and brought a lot of impressions back, to Germany.
After the Euruko 2007 in Vienna, last year, this was the second Euruko we attended and we think that it was a great success! The familiar spirit couldn’t be washed away by a quadrupled number of participants and so we had two days full of fun and information, a great combination. I’ve splitted our report up into two parts. This one is a narrative summary of what happened, before the conference has even begun and the second part will be a less narrative summary of our favorite talks and comments on the conference.
It shouldn’t take too long, till the first curious thing happened to us: Just arrived at the Prague airport, we took our luggage, and wanted to take the next taxi to our hotel. But as we were just checking how long the transfer to the hotel would take by bus or tram, Peter and Marianna asked if we are attending Euruko… It took a while, but I can’t imagine anything that roughly sound like Euruko so I had to believe that they really said “Euruko”. After he explained, that he remembered our faces from the last conference the situation was little bit more clear ;) . But then that: They were at the airport with Karel and waited for… *drum roll* Matz :) . Woah! Alright, we changed our plan: No more taxi, instead a public transportation ride with Matz to the city. Nice start of this weekend! But actually the plan was changed once again. Sebastian was hit by a nasty virus last week and still struggled a little, so after waiting for about 30 minutes we left, without Matz and the his reception committee by taxi. Strange first hour in Prague :) .
After we had checked in at the hotel, I discovered Prague on my own. After a delicious meal near the hotel it was already somewhat around midnight, but I thought that tough Rubyists would doubtlessly partying till the early morning, so it would be worth go to the party, even if I would be a little late. A long story short: There is a club in Prague called “Farbique” or somewhat like that. I was confused, that it isn’t possible to buy a tram ticket IN the tram and then walked all the way down town, where this club is located. I found it… but it wasn’t “La Frabika” ;) . So this was my party-night at Friday. I found a ticket machine in a metro station, took the tram back to our hotel.
