Time Warp!
Between 28th Oct and 6th Nov, I will have visted 3 different countries - not counting the UK, I'll only have been there for 2 days. During November I will visit 5 countries in all and already my mind is whiring from the airport-hotel-show-hotel-airport scenarios that are being repeated.
I currently sit in a very swanky hotel in Warsaw while doing the work that has been piling up during the first half the scenario played out earlier today; airport-hotel!
As travel is going to be a large part of my new job (and I'm starting to feel a need for better financial compensation for this!!) I need suggestions for some/all of the following:
Good books to read while travelling - nothing too heavy-going. Currently reading Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy?
Things to do to remove the tedium of hanging around airports/hotels?
2 Comments:
alcohol generally works.
What a shocker - mgb suggests alcohol.
Anyway Hilary, I understand your position very well. Travel has formed a shocking part part of my work life since about 2001 thereabouts. Couple of things : don't get hung up on reading - yes great and informative and educational but a pain in the hole when you are travelling a lot, so plan a book to read for only when you travel - Ulysses, or maybe take up a language (linguaphone sets are quite in vogue form my latest EU travels). If you have a laptop then movies are they way forward obviously. Catching up on your work is another funtime frankie solution but try to stick to regulation hours (if you dont your boss will start piling the work). As for hotels, you said Warsaw - why arent you out and about? Polish people are very nice, decent enough English and have stuff to look at. I'm not an art lover at any level but just go out for a walk, unless you are in Beirut, Los Angeles or Belfast you will usually be in a hotel that is in a safe-ish area.
As for hanging around airports, if you really have to hang around, you should go look for the drunks in the bars. They are always there and they will talk to anyone. They are usually in the 50's, hate travelling and will always have a funny story. I did that for most of my recent trip if only to avoid having to talk to my own contingent.
Of course all of this needs to played against the backdrop of not dragging around a bucket of crap just to keep yourself entertained.
Is mise le meas
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