Even Flow..

It's almost done for me. Euruko08 was fantastic! I took a plane on Friday and was kind of lucky. Since the plane was apparently overbooked, there was already someone in my seat, so I had to sit somewhere else. The nice stewardess told me to sit in the front of the plane, where normally the people sit who get the special treatment. Because of this, I also had some extra services like a newspaper and great food. The flight only took 90 minutes and was comfortable. After customs and luggage claim, I took the bus and metro to my hostel. The hostel was pretty basic, but ok.
After strolling around the city center a bit, I took a tram to the opening party. On the way, I crossed one of Pragues many bridges and because of the great view over the river and the light (sun was just going down, which gave spectacular lighting), I stopped after the bridge, walked back and took some great pictures (I'll upload them later on). Afterwards I went on to the party.
Here, there were some people already and very quickly I started some conversations. In the end there were around a hundred people. I talked to so many people from so many different countries; awesome. After the party, I took a taxi to the city center with Thomas and Niklas (from Germany) and Alex from Greece. We had some food (midnight snack) and then I went back to the hostel.
Next day, I went to the conference and spent all day listening to talks, talking to people and so on. I had lunch with Thomas and Niklas and after the conference, we had dinner together at a nice pizza place. After that, party again. There were more people than the day before and again I had lots of conversations. After the party, I took a taxi back to the hostel again.
The following morning, I got up and walked to the conference, alongside the river. Beautiful view! The conference again had nice talks and we had lunch together. The conference ended with 2.5 hours of lightning talks, where I was speaking last. The talk went alright. When the conference was really over, I met Marek, a dutch guy with whom I worked with a couple of years ago, but hadn't seen him since. Together with him, some colleagues, Niklas and Alex, we went to a Mexican bar/restaurant to drink and eat. Here we talked a lot and even tried out some cool code Alex came up with. When the bar was closing we left. I walked back to my hostel through the city center. Prague is such a beautiful city, especially by night!
This morning, I woke up at 8:30 am, had breakfast and checked out of my hostel. Then I roamed the streets, looking at shops and so on. Now I'm in a small restaurant and will leave in a couple of minutes. I'll be doing the tourist thing a bit more and will go to the airport around 3 pm to get my flight back home at 5 pm.
All in all, the weekend was absolutely fantastic! I feel great, met so many nice and interesting people. The only thing is that my voice is absolute crap now, because of all the talking and liters of beer I drank, but that will be fine.. Anyway, I'll be at Euruko 09 next year! Definitely!