May 24
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Travelling
I’m sitting here on Saturday after watching the Hurricanes lose in the semi-final of the Super 14 thinking that I should really start packing. I’m off to Melbourne for a week tomorrow and have a full day planned from 09:30 until I get on my plane at about 15:00 so don’t have a lot of time to pack in the morning.
Unfortunately I still have to:
- Sync my iPod
- Make sure I have some books on my Sony reader
- Make the bed
- Pack
- Decide whether or not to take my 30D and if so what lens to take (probably my 28mm)
Oh well better get off my chuff. Have a good week everyone and I’ll twitter if I can 🙂
Dec 08
Hello from the lounge at LAX 🙂
Sorry there hasn’t been an update while I’ve been here (I got here 14 hours late) but my week has been mucho filled with training sessions, meetings and copious amounts of drinking….
I was looking through the photos on my camera and came across this one. Max had a party a couple of weeks ago that had a pirate theme. Naturally Elliot wanted to join in 🙂
Update to follow (probably)
Dec 03
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Travelling
It’s 05:20 in the morning and I’m sitting in the lounge at Auckland airport.
Not only is this a horrible, horrible time to be awake but it’s also the same time that I should have been landing in Los Angeles on the first day of my latest trip.
“Engineering requirements” has kept the 747 on the ground for the last 12 hours and me away from a day in the US. To be fair though I’d rather have twelve hours on the ground than have an engine drop off over the Pacific ocean 🙂
In typical airline fashion the airline had booked us all into a hotel near the airport the “Grand” Chancellor. I put grand in quote marks due to the fact that it is so not. I’ve stayed there before when a flight to Hong Kong was delayed and had a shitty smoking room but this time it was even better as they ran out of rooms before I could check in! They said they could probably find us a room down the road but by this time I had decided that I would catch a cab into the city and stay where I normally do when I come to Auckland. A couple of phone calls later and I had booked a room and was on my way to somewhere I knew and trusted.
$255 and 8 hours later and I was checking out and back on my way to the airport to try again. It’s 90 minutes until we (hopefully) leave and there is still no gate number assigned……
After a lot of travelling you just have to sit back and accept that stuff like this happens. There were so many pissed off and stressed out people last night and there really is nothing you can do about it – shouting at some harassed person behind the counter will really not get you anywhere.
Mind you, if the flight goes ahead, it will be my first time upstairs in a jumbo jet! I didn’t get an upgrade last night but because a number of business class passengers moved to another US bound flight I think it freed up a number of seats on our flight – happy days 🙂
Nov 01
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Travelling
In October I had 11 flights in 31 days.
That’s an average of a flight every 2.81818182 days.
02-Oct-07 Wellington Auckland NZ0410
04-Oct-07 Auckland Wellington NZ0451
11-Oct-07 Wellington Auckland NZ0410
12-Oct-07 Auckland Wellington NZ0451
16-Oct-07 Wellington Auckland NZ0410
17-Oct-07 Auckland Wellington NZ0419
18-Oct-07 Wellington Auckland NZ0410
20-Oct-07 Auckland Tokyo Narita NZ0099
25-Oct-07 Tokyo Narita Auckland NZ0090
26-Oct-07 Auckland Wellington NZ0439
28-Oct-07 Wellington Sydney NZ0743
Nov 01
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Travelling
Gee, it seems that all I do is sit in airports doing updates! At the moment I’m in Sydney about to catch a flight to Auckland (and then home tomorrow night – yay!)
This week so far has been spent at a sales kickoff event which was held at the Hunter Valley Crowne Plaza. This resort is set in the middle of Austalia’s premier wine producing area and we didn’t get to do a single wine tour!
Not much to say really – the days were full of blah-blah, the nights full of rah-rah and my head full of cold. Not conducive to partying hard really.
Oct 28
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Travelling
..I’m back at another airport!
I got home OK on Friday and spent the evening with the boys and Vic, which was fantastic. Saturday was spent at home with people visiting and this morning (Sunday) was packing for this trip….
So here I am at the Air NZ lounge doing some work that I didn’t get done last week. The excitement that is my life!
Oct 26
In the “on this day” section at the side of the blog I noticed a link to this article from the same day in 2004 complaining about the amount of travel that I had coming up.
It’s bloody nothing compared to what I’m doing at the moment!
The funny thing is I’m not even complaining about the travel I’m doing – well not much…..
PS: We’ve signed up a sales person in Auckland! I’m not the only one in New Zealand any more and in a few months he might even be useful!
Oct 26
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Travelling
Hello from Kansai international airport in Osaka – built on an artificial island and now only sinking at the rate of 7cm per year! Geek alert – the wikipedia article is actually quite interesting.
I have a 90 minute stopover here before winging my way to Auckland (and then Wellington….) Can you tell I have nothing else to do?
🙂