Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Restauracja Roma, Warsaw, Poland

Restauracja Roma, a nice cosy, quaint-ish style. Martin liked the interior. Service with attitude.

Bert Schaekers - Tivoli Security Sales Leader for IBM CEE. Grew up in Bree, Belgium, where Kim Clijsters is from. Committed IBMer straight from University, doing MBA at Henley, avid runner and cycler, reads interesting books (also on subconsciousness) given to him by his wife. One day he will master kitesurfing and Hercule Poirot is not French but Belgian/Walloon.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Rubelj, Zagreb, Croatia

Rubelj Grill. Great cevapi. This one in Crnomerec part of Zagreb.

Marijo Bos - Consultant, professor and a business woman running BosAdvisors. Delivered a great Business Communication class at Cotrugli MBA. Madrid resident, but works all over Europe and worldwide. Was part of dot com bubble, involved in selling business.com domain name for many million USD. Recently went to Namibia, Kenya and South Africa - without any hotel bookings in advance. Giving and receiving good feedback.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Veža, Bratislava, Slovakia

Restauracia Veža in the TV tower on the hill Kamzik above Bratislava, with a nice view over the city and the castle.

Javier Torres - WW WebSphere GB Sales exec, born and raised in Venezuela (where Miss Universe 2009 is coming from), can find only good words for Colombian girls, father sent him to Miami to study English and he never came back, married a Spanish lady, cannot sleep in the car, worked for Ingram Micro before joining IBM. Lives in Miami and will one day give back to society, while having his own restaurant - maybe near Vulpellac in Spain - as he likes to cook and does it often. Aye!

Martin Frolo - WebSphere Sales Specialist at IBM in Slovakia. Originally from Povazska Bistrica, studied computer science in Nitra, before moving to the capital. One day he will buy a small island and get busy with it.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Cara cu bere, Bucharest, Romania

Mici = Chevapchichi. Not server in Cara cu bere, but in Bucharest Business Park by Eurest.

Ovidiu Bastea a.k.a. Che Guevara - WebSphere Connectivity Leader in CEE region. Raised in small village near Galati. One day he will have a Hasselblad camera. That moment will probably be posted on blog.ovidiubastea.ro Like most Romanians, he also likes to "share" food in the restaurant = take from other plates :)

Carmen Raileanu - WebSphere Technical Specialist at IBM Romania. (The guy next to her is Adi). She grew up in Constanza, likes dancing, in particular rumba and salsa, was international aerobic and fitness instructor. Speaks Spanish and visited Argentina. And one day she will have a spa resort and travel a lot - Bali among one of the first destinations.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Cankarjevo nabrezje, Ljubljana, Slovenia

One of the bars on Ljubljanica river bank in Old Town. Always full, always available.

Miguel Nobre dos Reis - WebSphere Commerce Sales Manager for CEEMEA region. A very interesting figure, born in Portugal, lived in Central Africa, South America, met his German wife in Madrid and now lives with his family in Munich. Some day in the future, he will take care of his own hacienda. Not in Germany.

IBM. Innerpeace. Yeah.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009