Sixteen+ mossie/insect bites – including two on the face Two days of walking at least 14 miles (30k steps) Two terrifying lightning storms whilst in the tent Slap in the face from sleeping child: one One two hour battle with the elements to drag gear back to the car Beautiful sunsets: two Pleading with nice […]
Category Archives: Travel
May
15
An Alternative To Dan Brown
posted by petegoold
Hands up anyone that’s purchased the latest Dan Brown novel, Inferno. This kind of thing is a source of some debate amongst my friends and in our office, dividing the literary purists from those that are happy to grab a page turner to throw in the suitcase. I’ve always been amongst the former but as […]
April
28
Cleaning Up The Mailroom
posted by petegoold
Over the last decade or so – since we started Punch back in 2003 – the volume of mail coming into my inbox has steadily continued to grow in size year on year, from what now seemed to be very lightweight, to become the ever-demanding, resource-sapping monster that it is today. Like many people, I […]
Cavos
posted by petegoold
I had a great night last night – visited Restaurant Cavos in Munich – which is apparently famous for Bayern Munich WAG wannabees, particularly on Thursdays (for some reason, best known to people locally). The greek food was great and then they crank the music up. It took a little while for them to decide […]
London vs Munich Hotels
posted by petegoold
I’ve been out a couple of days on the trot this week, what with Christmas parties and the usual weekly travel. We had a late night Wednesday and an early start on Thursday so I thought I’d stay in London that night before heading to Heathrow later Thursday. One of the Punch team found me […]
Pour Some Sugar On Me (In The Name Of Love)
posted by petegoold
I’ve realised that Copenhagen has quickly become my favourite airport. It’s clean, hassle free and, on a good day, I can now go from walking into the building to getting through security in about ten minutes. Possibly my favourite aspect of the airport though is the Danish guys that await the other side. There’s an […]
Laptop Battery Woes
posted by petegoold
I’ve bought a new laptop this week, which frankly was a fairly expensive exercise that was primarily to address one issue – battery life. I bought a spare battery for my current machine for just over £100 a few months ago but it seems to have made minimal difference so obviously the old one wasn’t […]
Stimulants & I
posted by petegoold
So, I’m back to my favourite subject – sleep – once again. Or, at least, the effect of specific stimulants on the quality of my sleep and therefore my life in general. Post-holiday, I’ve now consolidated my abstention of booze with the added sacrifice of caffeine – or at least, caffeine in it’s most potent […]
Hit Pause
posted by petegoold
The last week or so before holiday is always berserk – and this week has been no different. With three new joiners in the last few weeks, a leaver today and a couple of major new projects onboarding right now, the adage that ‘it’s never a good time’ is perhaps more applicable than normal at […]
Finding More Hours
posted by petegoold
This week my body clock has steadfastly refused to accept local time (Pacific, ie 8hrs behind the UK) to the extent that with two days to go, I really no longer want to acclimatise before turning around and going home. To be fair it has allowed me to wake up, typically between 4am and 5:30pm […]
Overseas Email
posted by petegoold
I’m flying to the US tomorrow to spend the next week with clients Reality Digital and for a couple of new business meetings. Given the time difference and the inevitable conversations with the UK, it’s always a long day – but one of the interesting elements that I’ve noticed the last few times I’ve been […]
Cabs vs Tube
posted by petegoold
I’ve never been one for taking cabs when I can catch the tubes but in the last few weeks I seem to be jumping from one meeting to the next, both for timekeeping reasons and to keep on top of things inbetween meetings. Despite being busy enough to warrant this it still feels hugely indulgent […]
Caffeine & A Very Long Week
posted by petegoold
Lots has been made of Google’s new algorithm Caffeine this week, with the forthcoming changes making ripples to the online search community to the forthcoming changes (which can be trialled). I picked up on an interesting piece from a blog yesterday in which we were mentioned, commented and only later realised that it was Australian. […]
A Transatlantic Cultural Dichotomy
posted by petegoold
So, I’ve finally lasted out my Vodafone contract and have made the switch over to 02, a move which I assume many continue to make despite Vodafone’s best yet failing efforts to the contrary, simply on the basis of demand for the iPhone. Despite the fact that it clearly looks beautiful and I’m pretty keen […]
What Happens When You’re Permanently Out of Office?
posted by petegoold
It’s been a long week this week, having trawled the country, from London Monday to Leicester then Liverpool, on to Birmingham and then London again Friday. OK, so I had a day in the office on Wednesday and therefore shouldn’t complain but it has literally been a week of shooting from one meeting to the […]
A Real Out Of Office Message
posted by petegoold
Delighted to be putting my actual out of office message on for the first time in a while as I’m flying to Spain with my girls for a week this weekend. It’s been a crazy start to 2009, we have another new person joining on Monday and are recruiting again. The great thing is that […]
New Look, New Home
posted by petegoold
So, a few weeks ago I moved this blog from it’s former home to this new location, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the software I was using, from a site called ‘edublogs’ was proving extremely painful to use despite being based on WordPress, resisting updates on a seemingly arbitrary basis. Secondly I also wanted […]
Accidental Fatigue Management
posted by petegoold
It’s been a strange ten days. I anticipated having sufficient time on my hands to blog throughout the trip to San Francisco but aside from three trips to the pool and a party on the Friday night, I don’t think I had a non-work related waking moment. Which is not to say that was a […]
Heading To Napa Valley
posted by petegoold
After a long day yesterday at the hugely successful Reality Digital Social Building Blocks ’09 conference, we’re heading out to Napa Valley today for some wine tasting. Just working with colleagues in the UK to put some finishing touches to the frthcming Social Networking World Forum event that is taking place in London in a […]
Sleep Deprivation – Meet Jetlag…
posted by petegoold
I just landed yesterday in San Francisco with Reality Digital for a conference later this week – flight was terrific and managed to get through a heap of work. Rob Proctor (Head of EMEA) and I landed and headed straight out to a terrific restaurant called the Franciscan, overlooking Alcatraz. It’s been raining something terrible […]
Fortuitous Timing
posted by petegoold
It’s my Grandad’s 90th birthday in a few weeks time and we’re all schlepping down to Swansea (including both his 3 year old and 6 week old great granddaughters), which is going to be a fun trip. However, as luck would have it Leicester Tigers are playing Ospreys in the Heineken Cup that very weekend. […]
The Trip’s Over (& I’m Out)
posted by petegoold
Well it took a while but the trip back was pretty painless, what with the complete lack of sleep whilst I was away resulting in a 6 hour crash out on the flight. I certainly can’t pretend to know San Francisco well, having only been twice for around a week in total but, of the […]
Messaging, Check
posted by petegoold
A long, hard but rewarding day today. Messaging workshop alongside Reality Digital’s US agency, Sterling PR, has been duly cracked. Just time for a quick turn around then out for a bite to eat with the team. Tomorrow will focus more on the UK launch/European roll out. Quite freaked out that CEO of another client […]
Silicon Valley Update – Day 1.5
posted by petegoold
Actually I’m going to give up trying to figure out what day it is. As my colleague Ben just pointed out to me, I’ve had 4.5 hours sleep in the last 45 hours, which is a little concerning to be honest. Pulled up outside Reality Digital’s office last night to find that the building is […]
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