One of the reasons this trip was planned to begin in early May was because we\u2019d hoped to avoid some of the crowds associated with summer tourist season. The success of that logic has been less than stellar.\u00a0 It\u2019s is true that we\u2019ve run into very few U.S. travelers, but every place we\u2019ve been has been packed with visitors from the EU and the Far East. I believe the one small error in my logic was that your average Euro working bee gets at least four weeks of vacation a year AND they use it. This whole idea of busting your hump 80 hours a week so your mega-wealthy CEO can get another 2 mil bonus and forgoing time off because you need to cover all that work those two other people who got \u00a0laid off used to do has just not caught on here. Judging by the breakfast assembly at the Hotel M\u00f6veinpick, our Praha home, I doubt there can be anyone left in China.<\/p>\n
On the subject of the M\u00f6veinpick, the hotel\u2019s motto is \u201cSeriously Dedicated. Passionately Swiss.\u201d I\u2019m not too sure the statements travel quite as well as they\u2019d hoped. First of all, when I hear \u2018Swiss\u2019 I tend to think of \u201chighly regimented for no particular reason,\u201d but maybe it\u2019s just me. In addition, the joint\u2019s rated four stars and I\u2019ll buy that if you\u2019re using an eight star scale. The bottle of Evian in the room with a \u20ac7.00 price tag on it kind of sealed the non-giddy deal for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of the reasons this trip was planned to begin in early May was because we\u2019d hoped to avoid some of the crowds associated with summer tourist season. The success of that logic has been less than stellar.\u00a0 It\u2019s is true that we\u2019ve run into very few U.S. travelers, but every place we\u2019ve been has …<\/p>\n