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Posts tagged with "travel"

Chicken in China

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I spent a few days in Beijing recently. Interesting place...

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New passport

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I changed one of the most important documents I have...

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On top of the world...

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Well, around the top half of the world, followed by a break over easter...

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South by...

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SxSW (South by SouthWest) is a huge festival of music, film, interactive stuff, in Austion Texas. There are those who have suggested it is just an excuse to spend a week drinking at someone else's expense - and for some people that is true - but there are intersting things there too.

This year I went for a repeat of a panel I was on last year - so here are some impressions.

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Been a while

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It's been ages since I wrote anything here. A rapid factual account of some places I have been and things I have done since then...

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One of those days...

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Today is finnish independence day. It was Granny's birthday too. And this week is unlike any other in my life...

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The joy of Jetlag...

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I am suppoesd to be asleep. I have to be up early tomorrow. But I was at two great conferences recently, and squeezed in some travel...

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A destination reached...

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...but the journey continues.

I flew to Australia yesterday, and I finished my 52nd and 53rd books.

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Tokyo is open for SVG

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The SVG event of the year is the SVG Open. At least some years - unfortunately last year's conference was cancelled. This year, it was in Tokyo...

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Ah, Paris. Air France. Aarrgh :(

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I am in Paris airport, on my first Air France trip - and I have been for a bit over eight hours. So far I am extremely unimpressed. With Air France, with the airport, with the whole deal. Maybe on the way back it will seem that this was an aberration, but if I didn't have a return ticket with them already, I would be reluctant to be on another flight with them. Ever. (This doesn't mean I wouldn't. Just that I would pay money and go out of my way to avoid it).

I would have filled out their complaint form directly but it wasn't big enough. I'll send them a pointer to this, so they can read it.

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Blinded by the wind

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I took a fairly odd route to spend 2 days in Vienna. And I lost my glasses :frown:

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Ordago...

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En Grande y Chica, Par. Pero no es un juego...

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I'm in London, Still...

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Thanks to a cancelled flight. A night on a floor, but breakfast in good company and the floods and thunder of yesterday have been changed for reading Under Milk Wood in the embankment gardens and watching the people go by...

(I wrote this ages ago and never posted it because I was offline then got distracted by work)

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Two ways...

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While waiting on the phone for British Airways ...

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Baggage handling...

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What is wrong with airline baggage services? Maybe I am just frustrated by a week of washing my clothes in the shower before I go to bed, and not having time to get proper clothes again...

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Shaken up

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I have been flying, been in an earthquake, and of course British Airways lost my baggage again...

I had some fun. I caught up with friends, and I had a hard time too.

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Older. Wiser?

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I had a birthday recently...

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Paris - very far out

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I spent a few days in Paris. Lovely place, of course. Hung out with friends - lovely people. Went to Xtech - lovely conference. But why was there no internet??

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Tim and Eric.

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Two people who I have been really lucky to know and work with. in a remarkably nice place.

Only just counts...

I added a new country, but it would be stretching a point to say I really know it much... Still, 47 countries visited now.

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