Yes, I am back again with yet another entry to the 'exciting' travels of mine.

It was an eventful day to say the least - so bear with me as I run through the thrills and spills from the last 16 hours. It all started with a 4am wake-up, or for me it was 3am as a lovely migrane attack got me going after only 3 hours of sleep. My lovely wife drove me to the the airport (well, i drove) .. and it was good that we left that two hours for me to go through security, etc. As it is Bank Holiday in the UK - which means that the British people need to leave the country. The longest queues ever at the security check, snaking all the way around the second floor of Birmingham Airport - but got through and on to my first flight to Frankfurt.

Second flight, Frankfurt to Geneva was more entertaining. Once again the 'pull' of camera people introduced me to some new people. As the photographer reading this know, I've been using the Canon 1DX for the last month or so - and was reading through the manual while sitting on my seat at the plane, when the woman next to me asks whether I am reading the 1DX manual and whether I have one.. So off we go on a long talk about photography, cameras and lenses and all photo related things. And as so often, these talks have a third party.. something I like to call a 'Photography Widow'. That is the partner of one or both photo enthusiasts - who usually rolls his/her eyes and thinks.. 'There he/she goes again..' 

After talking through the flight - she does wildlife photography, and hopefully I'll post a link to her work later!! - it sounded like she was rather keen to get her hands on a 1DX once they return back to Canada..  so in case my talk and showing of the camera leads to an empty bank account somewhere in the vicinity of Calgary... I do apologise in advance ;-) (if you've found your way to read my Blog - send me a link to your wildlife pics.. looking fwd to seeing them!!)

Landing in Geneva - there still another 90 minutes of driving to do to get to Fribourg and the hotel. Unfortunately my Sat-Nav is rather temperamental and decided to play up for the first 20 minutes of my drive, so I had NO IDEA where I was driving. or if it was the right direction. Luckily it eventually came on and I had my stroke of luck been driving in the right direction! Somehow it seems to me that a certain Sat-Nav manufacturer gives their devices a life-span of 12 months, this is now the third one that is giving up after about a year. Should maybe by the other brand next??

Hotel in Fribourg is decent - and if I lean far enough out of the window, I can see the basketball arena about 500 meters away from the hotel! BRILLIANT!

Off to dinner next - get caught in a summer thunderstorm in the middle of Fribourg, sit down to eat in an Italian restaurant... and lets just say that this was the blandest meal I've had in ages! Now, I've been a Chef for 16 years of my life and like to think that I might know a thing or two about cooking.. but the Cannelloni I ate... I've eaten pieces of paper (DON'T ASK!) that have been tastier than what I paid £20 for tonight. At least i know one restaurant to avoid in Fribourg.

Tomorrow it's back to work - Finland has their training in the afternoon, so pictures/video/interviews to be sorted out from there.

So - all in all a pretty decent day. Met some lovely people on the plane, none of my flights crash landed, I didn't get lost and I had a tasteless dinner.