Hectic Times

First step: complete! I am now in London, enjoying the thought that this is what I will be coming back to after 28 days in the gulag...

This weekend was rather busy packing everything up, making sure all bills are paid and everyone knows what to do for the next 6 months. We did manage to have a lovely dinner at a very nice restaurant on Friday, to celebrate my last day in the office, and see Swan Lake by the St Petersburg ballet company (rather appropriate I thought) on Saturday night.

Yesterday morning, after a rather short night (thank goodness for the extra hour) Matthew and I packed the 4 large bags and a couple of other bits into a minicab and left for the airport at 7 am. Everything went smoothly, including bright, sunny weather-what a lovely day to arrive home :-)

Today I am sitting in the TPA office sorting through the last bits of admin and I am supposed to be packing everything in time for tomorrow but am currently waiting for a certain colleague to give me their final comments on a report that needs to be published. ....................

I will be flying to Moscow tomorrow morning, and will try to post something Wednesday night when I finally get to the wellsite.

Till then...

Dates of my Siberian shifts

1st November-29th November: Salym
30th November-26th December: London
27th December-24th Jan: Salym
25th Jan-20th Feb: London
21st Feb-21st March: Salym
22nd March- 18th April: London


Bearing in mind that one day on either side of start and finish dates is taken up with travel.

Al Gore

Well ths one has nothing to do with my travels but now that I have a blog I might as well use it. I'll have to transfer my rants to another one some time.

In the meantime, Al Gore spoilt my breakfast this morning as I watched his sleazy slicked-back hair on the Breakfast Show; the BBC treehuggers were lapping it up. So I feel the need to share this video with everyone, made by the guys at CEI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPDWDl6_KbY

hmm I have yet to find out how to do hyperlinks on this thing

Anyway, watch it and pass it on!

Countries I've been to

I found this on Ash's blog. It looks a lot more impressive than it actually is but it's fun anyway...the message here is clear though! (cue Matthew, keyword: holidays)




create your own visited countries map

Welcome to my blog!

Hello all,

welcome to my blog. I can't believe how easy it was to create this.
I will be using these pages to post my travel logs and general impressions as I travel around the world. At some stage I hope to link this up to my website, which I have yet to sort out.

See you all here soon!

Florence x