Just got back from ‘briefing’ Julie. Her flight was delayed out of Heathrow and she said Cathay Pacific had all sorts of problems in Hong Kong, probably the knock on effect of the typhoons in the Philippines. I’ve checked with Air New Zealand and my flight out of Sydney to Wellington is still showing on schedule, so fingers and toes crossed all should go smoothly. I used my trip from Sydney to Wellington as an example for risk management on Tuesday morning and after the problems they came up with I was wondering if I would ever get there.
Earthquakes usually come out as very low probability when you do risk analysis in the UK, but when you are going to Wellington it all becomes a bit more significant. They have a tremor every day, significant shakes every month and big ones now and then. I understand the whole place is engineered to cope with it though????????
Last night the hotel concierge told me there were some good Indian restaurants in a place called Kings Cross. What he didn’t tell me is it is also full of strip clubs, serious drinking bars, backpacker’s hostels and most of Sydney’s homeless and drug addicts. I found somewhere to eat though and had excellent vegetable samosas, a mixed vegetable curry, peshwari rice and a huge nan for $AU9.95, less than £5! The walk to Kings Cross took me across Hyde Park, would have been quite pleasant if it hadn’t been lashing with rain. Interestingly Liverpool Street is also near Hyde Park. Wonder where those first Sydney settlers came from then.
I’ve just packed everything in to my suit case ready for the next part of the trip to Wellington. I noticed that the plastic shell of my suitcase has been broken on the way out so I went to the shop and bought some duct tape. It’s a cheap impersonation of real Duct Tape and I’m just hoping it will be ok.
I hope I’ll be back online in Wellington Monday night, which will be Monday morning in the UK. The time difference from Sydney is 3 hours so that makes it 14 hours in front of the UK I think. The flight time is 3 hoursish.
Earthquakes usually come out as very low probability when you do risk analysis in the UK, but when you are going to Wellington it all becomes a bit more significant. They have a tremor every day, significant shakes every month and big ones now and then. I understand the whole place is engineered to cope with it though????????
Last night the hotel concierge told me there were some good Indian restaurants in a place called Kings Cross. What he didn’t tell me is it is also full of strip clubs, serious drinking bars, backpacker’s hostels and most of Sydney’s homeless and drug addicts. I found somewhere to eat though and had excellent vegetable samosas, a mixed vegetable curry, peshwari rice and a huge nan for $AU9.95, less than £5! The walk to Kings Cross took me across Hyde Park, would have been quite pleasant if it hadn’t been lashing with rain. Interestingly Liverpool Street is also near Hyde Park. Wonder where those first Sydney settlers came from then.
I’ve just packed everything in to my suit case ready for the next part of the trip to Wellington. I noticed that the plastic shell of my suitcase has been broken on the way out so I went to the shop and bought some duct tape. It’s a cheap impersonation of real Duct Tape and I’m just hoping it will be ok.
I hope I’ll be back online in Wellington Monday night, which will be Monday morning in the UK. The time difference from Sydney is 3 hours so that makes it 14 hours in front of the UK I think. The flight time is 3 hoursish.
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