... and then there was snow!! Having come back from the majestic snow clad Annapurna Mountains and loving the dramatic scenery I saw the other side of the snow – how it can bring our country to a stand still. No deliveries meaning a shortage of food and petrol in ...
Oh where do I start? I am sitting at Kathmandu airport reflecting on so many wonderful experiences we have had whilst in Nepal. Steve and I had booked this trip as our annual honeymoon.
Being very much a people’s person I am struck by the genuine and happy Nepalese people. Nepal ...
I love this time of year in my professional capacity – because so many of our overseas agents and travel partners are in the UK for a trade exhibition and in the past week we have seen a lot of them in our offices and this week we will meet ...
It is amazing what we would do for our friends and indeed what friends will do for us. Well more about that later.
I was privileged to be invited once again to be a Judge at the NatWest everywoman awards. What a hard task it is – such amazing and outstanding ...
I don’t know how many of you feel like this – but whatever time I get up in the morning – it is the last 5 minutes that I treasure. Between waking and getting up – oh just five minutes – how many of you feel like that? Not today ...
It really has been a full on couple of weeks with signing off brochures and all that that entails.
I wouldn’t usually say this in my blog but it has to be said!! For regular readers you know that I can often be very inspired by people. Well I want to ...
If we ever had a summer it is now fast moving to autumn and nights are closing in. Whilst personally I enjoy the summer and longer light evenings on a business front this is the best time as we are launching some really exciting new holidays for 2011 and our ...
I’ve had a very exciting couple of weeks. Jordan Tourist Office had a military band playing at the Edinburgh Tattoo and so they invited a mix of travel industry and press to join them. I have been to the Tattoo before and think it is a spectacular show. When the ...
I love air travel but what makes me love it even more, is knowing the miles you can cover in a matter of hours. I say this, as we drove to Suffolk at the weekend- and it took us 4 hours to drive 12 miles by the Dartford tunnel. Yes ...
I am so excited about this evening. We invited all of our staff to join us for an evening of innovation and ideas. That is, we are not presenting to staff my ideas on innovation, we are asking for their support and ideas for their innovation. There will of course ...
We had such a great day on Wednesday. Some of us went off site for a brainstorm day. Sorry I know some readers hate that kind of phrase, so I will say blue sky thinking. Whilst one would always like to think they have innovative ideas and often these come ...
Well, we won the game yesterday!! England in the World Cup that is. Wouldn’t it be fantastic if we won? I was pleased to see some of our Scottish staff watching the game- they would have to be really perverse if they watched and wanted Slovenia to win and really ...
There is a saying that I shouldn’t have got out of bed this morning that is usually uttered when things go wrong early in the day. I however was having a good day before calamity hit!
Being the eternal optimist I like to think that everything presents an opportunity. This week ...
I cannot, with any credibility, write this without mentioning the BA strike and the volcanic ash situation.
I do understand that every industry has its challenges and I can honestly say I don’t know enough about the adversities of many other industries. Apart from the challenges the recession has brought to ...
Well has the volcanic ash taken the vital media coverage the politicians needed or has it helped them? I was considering how our lives have changed so much in the last century. Some of you may be aware that my Father if alive today would have been 100 years old. ...
I am off to the airport first thing on Monday to see a group of people off to America- we are privileged in being asked to organize yet another trip for the Bowls England Association for the Presidents Tour. There are close on 50 people going for a month – ...
What a whirlwind many of us live in. There are just not enough hours in a day. One thing I always envied about Margaret Thatcher is she could survive on just around 4 hours sleep a night…..sleep to me though isn’t essential, it just gets in the way of living!! ...
We are all different!! Some people live on an even keel from day to day, with no high drama … or perhaps I should say mishaps. I think I am a person that lives more on a ‘mountain to valley’ and back to the top of mountain type life!!
I have ...
