There are two kinds of trips - business and pleasure. Over the last year I have had some success in watching my diet and exercising while on business trips but it’s a different story when I’m on vacation.
And I think that’s OK.
I suppose it’s easy for me to say this given how bad I [...]
Skiing was great, nice fluffy winter snow up at the highest altitudes although at the bottom things would get a little slushy towards the end of the day. We had fresh powder almost every day we skied which was great. I skied OK but I’m still too out of shape, particularly with the altitude, to [...]
My hotel in Munich is right next to Theresienwiese, an open-air park that is the official grounds for Oktoberfest. A couple of months late for that festival, I have to settle for Tollwood, a Winter Festival taking place on the same grounds.
Stop reading right now if you hold the least bit of respect for my [...]
I arrived to a chilly Munich tonight, finally settling into my hotel at about 9:30. It is noticeably colder here than London (big shock, duh) but I was surprised to see the actual temp is only a couple of degrees below zero - it felt a lot colder than that.
Having run on 3 days in [...]
I lived in South Africa for a year when I was ten. On the way home we first stopped in Australia for a month and I’ll never forget the feeling I got seeing those big American cars driving around Melbourne after a year of not seeing them in South Africa.
I felt a little of the [...]
