Home sweet home
I’m home.
After 5 weeks, 5 countries, and more than 40,000 km in aeroplanes, cars, trains, buses and boats, I’m finally back where I started.
The world’s an amazing place, there’s no doubt about it.
The world’s also a very big place. You don’t realise just how big, or how amazing, until you travel non-stop for 30 hours from one side of the world to the other; the same distance that it takes an email, an instant message or a Facebook notification to travel in less than a second.
We flew from Melbourne to Sydney, then to Singapore, London, attended a family wedding in England, flew to Northern Ireland, drove through the Republic of Ireland, flew to Scotland, then Denmark, back to England and finally home.
I’d been to most of these places before, but some cultural differences that I really noticed this time were:
- In England, no-one has a laundry;
- The rest of the world still uses copper coins and denominations below 5 cents;
- Australia has a lot to learn when it comes to public transport;
- Dr Ron has an accent; and
- “Local knowledge” is everything!
Now I need a holiday to recover from my holiday. I guess that’s what work is for. I’m back into it, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, Monday morning.
Catch you all on Tech Talk tomorrow night. More soon.