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Danish deer
Wednesday, May 24th, 2006Lyngby Lakes
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006Sleepy Scandic
Monday, May 22nd, 2006Back in Denmark again this week although staying out in Lyngby this time as it saves driving through the centre of Copenhagen every morning to reach the customer. Arrived late last night and then proceeded to spend 20 minutes driving round a deserted town centre attempting to find the entrance to the Scandic Eremitage. I knew where the hotel was (you can hardly miss it built on top of the shopping centre) but it was only on the third lap of the block that I spotted the ramp in the middle of the high street down to the underground parking!
After last week’s lift noise my room was beautifully quiet. That is until 7 o’clock the following morning at which point the sound of the jack-hammers remodelling the concrete in the car park drifted all too readily up the lift shaft to the ninth floor.
Freetown running
Thursday, May 18th, 2006Went for a run from the hotel this evening and planned to do a lap of the nearby waterway shown on the map. This proved to be quite a good session with the numerous steps up and down the steep banks surrounding the water a passable substitute for hill reps. It was only when I got back that I discovered that the various ramshackle buildings on the route form Christiania, a semi-legal independent community. Perhaps not the most salubrious part of town and not somewhere I’d return to after dark.
Sleepless in Scandanavia
Tuesday, May 16th, 2006Spoke too soon about the weather in Denmark – back in Copenhagen again this week and it has been raining fairly incessantly. I’m staying in the Radisson SAS Scandinavia this time and should have remembered from a previous occasion to ask for a room away from the lifts. They make a hell of racket during the night and I’m a pretty light sleeper. Unfortunately the hotel’s full so no chance of moving.
Denmark shines
Saturday, May 13th, 2006London City Airport
Sunday, May 7th, 2006Had to fly out to Denmark at short notice and selected a SAS flight from London City Airport thinking that it should be easy to get to without having to find a last minute taxi. Indeed, it ought to be: an hour on the train to Waterloo followed by the Jubilee Line and DLR. Unfortunately Network Rail had other ideas and aren’t running any trains between Basingstoke and Farnborough every weekend in May. This would have meant getting a bus from Winchester to Alton and then changing again at Woking. Ended up getting a taxi after all which, at 2.5 hours and £100, still wasn’t much better. The airport itself was great though with all the advantages of a small regional airport – think I’ll leave it to the good citizens of London in future though.
Vegas birthday conference
Saturday, May 6th, 2006Spent the past week in Las Vegas for the IBM WebSphere Services Technical Conference. Had a direct flight from Gatwick with Virgin Atlantic which was infinitely preferable to having to spend an extra couple of hours in some random US airport. We were based in the Rio for the week both for accommodation and the conference itself. Much more pleasant being off the Strip (in fact, I only made it to the Strip once and that was for an early morning run) although it did mean it was possible to spend the entire day inside a dry air-conditioned box. Sadly, by the time the presentations were over for each day the sun had dropped behind the buildings meaning that the hotel’s pool and beach weren’t as enticing as they might have been.
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