I got up at five thirty in the morning to traipse out to the Wembley Park station. I really dislike North West London as I used to live there when I first arrived in London. At the time I had a bit of difficulty finding a job as all IT work was on [...]

For all they talk about the fast pace of big city life there is a weird anomaly in London when it comes to deliveries. I once waited 4 months for a vacuum to be delivered though I did leave the house during this time. So now I usually get stuff delivered to work [...]

I am going to carbon offset all my flights from now on. Particularly as they will all be personal travel rather than work travel. The amount of flying I do makes me feel pretty guilty as I try hard in the rest of my life to be as environmentally friendly as I can [...]

It was so nice to have a weekend that I wasn’t running around trying to get ready for my trip. Even though I am leaving for five weeks in New Zealand including a mini motorcycle trip (hopefully if nothing comes up to cause problems with Nigel’s kind offer to borrow his bike) I pretty [...]

I managed to find a shipping company that will get my bike back up to London before I go back to New Zealand next week. It is just over €600 but is still the most cost effective option. Now I just hope it doesn’t get stolen over the Xmas period while I am [...]

In preparation of my trip I had applied to open a Nationwide Building Society flex account as they do not apply any charges for overseas usage. Thinking about it, with the amount I travel for work I probably should have opened up one of these accounts years ago.
I also applied for £5000 balance transfer [...]

Ever since I found out late on Thursday night that my bike wasn’t being brought up to London all I have done is stress about how I was going to get it back from Portugal. It wasn’t the best timing as on Friday I had to get up at four in the morning to [...]

The Kingdom of Sweden is a Nordic country bordered by Norway on the west and Finland on the east. It’s population is 9 million. It is the 55th largest country, 5th largest in Europe (a bit larger than the state of California). Stockholm it’s capital city of 700,000 though 1.8 million live [...]

I advertised on HU, AdvRider and f650.com asking for help getting my bike from Lisbon to London and it was really encouraging. A Canadian and an American both offered to fly over and ride it up but unfortunately not until later a bit later so I just let them know if they want to [...]

Yesterday I felt like the luckiest person in the world. To go from paying for my own school uniform and stationary in secondary school, putting myself through university and my mba to be head hunted for a top job in the city is wicked. I now have a year and a half to [...]

It is weird waking up in the morning and seeing my bag packed with my camping gear ready to go. It turns out that I let Nuno know that I wasn’t going just as they were ready to take my bike to the containers to be shipped.
On Tuesday my footprint for Mexico and Central [...]

I just got back from a superb night thanks to my mate Ian who invited me along to the Sixtieth Royal Film Performance of Casino Royale the latest Bond movie. The movie was really good which you will see for yourself. But it was nothing compared to the excitement of attending a world [...]

I phoned up my mother and grandmother last night in New Zealand to tell them that if this job comes through that I would be delaying my trip and would be coming home for Christmas. They are absolutely stoked. Partly because I haven’t been home for Christmas since I was 17 and they [...]

After spending last night preparing for the interview using a really good website my mate recommended www.businessballs.com/interviews.htm this morning I woke up early to do some more research on the company. I knew that they were involved in on selling a lot of the renewable energy (wind and biomass generation) in the UK but [...]

On Friday one of our sales managers said that the managing director of the client that was looking for a project manager wanted to meet up with me. Seeing as how my bike is going into the container on Monday I decided to give them a ring. I talked to one of their [...]