Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category
Back to Bern
Monday, August 28th, 2006Clouds, sun and … more rain
Sunday, August 27th, 2006Wet Schwarzsee
Saturday, August 26th, 2006Fribourg Festival
Saturday, August 26th, 2006Selling out to Robbie Williams
Friday, August 18th, 2006I’ve spent three days this week in Berne, Switzerland, and I’m due to return there next week. Trying to book accommodation has proved a nightmare though. Apparently Robbie Williams is in town on Wednesday and Thursday which means the place is booked out. Looks like I’m going to end up in the nearby town of Fribourg.
All quiet at Terminal 4
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006Work is taking me to Switzerland this week, flying to Zurich from Terminal 4 at Heathrow. Remarkably it took me just an hour and fifteen minutes to make it from home to past airport security – an hour sweeping up an empty M3, 5 minutes (if that) at self-service check-in and then 10 minutes for security, most of which was spent waiting for them to open the departure area.
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Travel chaos?
Friday, August 11th, 2006On Thursday morning I was driving to the customer site with the radio burbling away in Danish when I heard the words “John Reid”. There then followed a statement by the man himself (interesting that the Danes don’t feel the need to translate), detailing the foiled terrorist attacks and the consequent restrictions on hand luggage. Myself and a colleague, working at the same customer, spent much of the next 24 hours pondering how this would impact our journey home today.
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Rude awakening
Thursday, August 10th, 2006Back in Denmark again this week but in yet another hotel: Comwell Holte. This proved to be a fairly standard conference venue but has the twin benefits of a) being just 15 minutes drive from the customer and b) having a large forested area known as Rude Skov just over the road.
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