pgday.it - beer, grappa, wine and fun #1

so pgday.it is in full swing, and it's a truly impressive conference. Andreas and I arrived after a 7h drive from Salzburg in Prato.
Andreas claims it took us that long due to the strict traffic limits in Austria (there is a 100km/h limit on the A10 from Salzburg down to Italy for "environment protection" reason) but I'm not entirely convinced this is true ;-)
Anyway - we barely managed to check-in at the hotel when we met David, Magnus and Josh who took us on some sort of "sightseeing tour" around prato. Which means that we basically had a [ guide with long hair and in short trousers taking us through half of the city (couple miles at least) looking for a place to get food and sit down in prato - well we didn't succeed until someone else (the "map guy" from [the http://www.prato.linux.it/ prato linux user group]) gave us the right hint.
Later on the Italian guys organized a very cool dinner at a restaurant serving typical local food - and we learned quite a lot about local eating and drinking habits (pictures courtesy of Andreas).
We ended the day at around 2 o'clock in the morning at the "New York" bar directly in the city of prato which is basically a float on the river after feeding fish and drinking beer ...

Today is the first day of the actual conference and one can only barely imagine the amount of work the organizers have put into this ...
The organization is very good (with a nice ) there is a lot of neat merchandising stuff available and I even got a pgday.it staff shirt for myself, and everything is free (including the fantastic food we are getting served).
The talks are pretty interesting too with real time translation of the talks into English (or Italian for the ones held in English) - though the schedule is a bit crammed and could take some additional breaks between the speakers.
If you want to see what's going on here simply look at the official website and listen to the live audio broadcasts.