I’m off to Germany for some James Bond style client work today and won’t be back until Saturday. Although there are plenty of new articles ready to go over the next few days, my travel schedule prohibits the sort of Johnny-on-the-spot coverage you’re used to when something big develops in the Season of Discontent.
However, if the gods of travel are smiling on me and there is in-flight Wi-Fi then I may be able to stay on top of things and supplant any scheduled content with breaking news. Granted, I’m traveling uber-light thanks to the breakneck schedule and I’ll only have my iPad so don’t expect any fancy charts or graphs.
How breakneck is it?
Wed:
ORD>LAX; 4h:32m
Report to Q branch for mission specific equipment then meet with M and Moneypenny for final briefing.
Thurs:
LAX>FRT; 10hr:55m direct flight
FRA>HAM; approx 4h train trip
Conduct business and engage marzipan purchase.
HAM>FRA; return 4h train trip
Somewhere amidst all of this, my wife will be out enjoying the opening night of Skyfall.
Fri/Sat:
FRA>PHL>ORD 11h:37m:
If everything goes according to plan, celebrate operational success by smuggling post-mission marzipan into the final evening’s showing of Skyfall at local theater with my very own Bond girl.
Granted, these are all very much #firstworldproblems and, thankfully, there is plenty of marzipan involved but I do hope to able to write about all of it one day. It’s all genuinely fascinating stuff when you get right down to it but for now, non disclosure statements compel discretion. If and when that changes, you’ll be the first to know.
In Die Another Day, Bond is coming back on a rather turbulent British Airways flight. The air hostess (played by Roger Moore’s daughter Deborah) serves him his martini, to which Bond replies “Luckily I asked for it shaken”.
Drew, safe travels to Hamburg! We have Germany´s largest and oldest Arts Managment Institute in Hamburg (http://kmm-hamburg.de/) and would have loved to invite you for a session with our students. Are you coming back for a second visit?
Do you have time to spare for an interview in Hamburg? We could do it over Marzipan shopping. Best regards, Sonja
What a wonderful invitation and you’ve reminded me of an important lesson I should know in that I need to announce my travel plans sooner as I would have been happy to extend my trip to accommodation a visit to tour the program and talk to students.
As it stands, my time in Hamburg is going to be an hour or two at most (unless my flight is very late in which case it’s all up in the air) and then turn right around back to Frankfurt for my departure flight in the early afternoon on the next day.
I will send you an email with my contact info so that if things change (or you’d like to meet in Frankfurt before I depart) we can see about meeting.
You are going to the movie with one of the Bond (http://www.bondmusic.net/) girls instead of Holly? You probably shouldn’t announce that publicly. I guess that is what she gets for going to the movies a night early without you
Drew, safe travels to Hamburg! We have Germany´s largest and oldest Arts Managment Institute in Hamburg (http://kmm-hamburg.de/) and would have loved to invite you for a session with our students. Are you coming back for a second visit?
Do you have time to spare for an interview in Hamburg? We could do it over Marzipan shopping. Best regards, Sonja
Sonja,
What a wonderful invitation and you’ve reminded me of an important lesson I should know in that I need to announce my travel plans sooner as I would have been happy to extend my trip to accommodation a visit to tour the program and talk to students.
As it stands, my time in Hamburg is going to be an hour or two at most (unless my flight is very late in which case it’s all up in the air) and then turn right around back to Frankfurt for my departure flight in the early afternoon on the next day.
I will send you an email with my contact info so that if things change (or you’d like to meet in Frankfurt before I depart) we can see about meeting.
Best,
Drew
You are going to the movie with one of the Bond (http://www.bondmusic.net/) girls instead of Holly? You probably shouldn’t announce that publicly. I guess that is what she gets for going to the movies a night early without you
Ha, I didn’t even think of it that way 🙂