At the moment I'm sitting in my least favourite location in Toronto... Pearson Airpot.  What did poor Mr. Pearson ever do to have the most boring place in the city named after him?

I'm off for a 5 week business/vacation trip.  The business end of the trip brings me to Bath, England for talks with a start up instrumentation company and to Utrecht, Holland to do some onsite work at a client. The vacation end of the trip brings Heather and I to Thailand for just under 3 weeks.  we are both really looking forward to Thailand.  This will be the first trip to Asia for the both of us and the first time that we've had to relax in a while.  In typical fashion we will be planning on the plane ride over (thankfully is is long, 11 hours from Amsterdam).  We're planning on site seeing in Bangkok and then heading south to find a nice beach hut to rent.

If Thailand turns out to be a good trip I will try to temp Heather to write up her Phd thesis from there, rough life we lead ;-).

That's it for now... I can see the mass of people sharpening up their elbows to push to get on the plane.  I really love my frequent flyer card with KLM.  I get to check in with business class, board with business calls (i.e. FIRST) yet still pay for cattle class.  It will be a sad year when I don't travel enough to keep this card.