Escape from boredom

We have spent the weekend together with my colleagues in Prague, as alway a very nice city. In January much better than during high season in summer, you are able to walk around without 100.000 other people around you at all time.

I’ve taken pictures off course of the different beer brands I tried, first Gambrinus http://www.gambrinus.com/

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Pilsner Urquell off course

Krusovice http://www.pivo-krusovice.cz/en/

Here is a picture from a traditional beer serving tavern we visited, funny enough just across the street where we stayed on our VOT-03 tour. We also drank the dark beer they served there, not sure what brand that was.

Found this “thing” beside the sink in one of the restaurant. Not sure if it was to freshen the air in the room, or if it was perfume for free…

At Gardermoen, wearing the new _tent_

My latest book is Berlin by Anthony Beevor, the same author who wrote Stalingrad. As for that book this one is really good, the author is well known for weaving together the basic facts with personal histories. What I did not know, and found the most shocking fact was the huge amount of women that was raped by the Red Army on their way from Russia to Berlin and how the leaders of the Red Army ignored it. For Stalin found the “worst” threat to be that Russian soldiers should get “western thoughts”.

I especially found the last pages of the book very good, where he wraps up how many of the Wehrmacht generals (and others) refused to admit that what they had done was wrong. Instead they tried to explain what they could have done otherwise to win the war. For instance, some said it was wrong to start a war on two fronts, if they had not, they could have beaten the Bolsheviks…