Richard Wood’s agreeable daily commute consists of a stroll across Prague’s St Charles Bridge while he looks at the castle and swans and thinks about what he has to do that day. “It beats the tube,” he says.
The last time Wood hunched his tall, slim figure onto the London Underground on his way to work was seven years ago, when he was a fixed-income derivatives salesman for Salomon Brothers.
In early 1990 he quit and drove to Prague with a Christmas bonus and “curiosity about what was going on here”.
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