This week I spent flying between Sweden and Japan. I also had time to some meetings at our Lund office, but it felt like a mostly traveled between time zones.
But I had time to meet some friends in the evenings for dinner. Josef and his family on Wednesday night, finished with a walk along the sea back to the hotel. Calle and his family on Thursday night, finished with a drive by Slatan’s house in Malmö.
On Monday afternoon I went to Beijing and arrived at the hotel around 6 pm, going straight to the gym after checking in to my room. Then dinner.
Otherwise the most exciting things that happened during the week was two dinners, one with a Swedish ex-work colleague from Tokyo and another with a Malaysian ex-work colleague from Tokyo. Both were quite good Chinese dinners, with the latter having a main course of Beijing Duck. The “duck restaurant” was a bit special too, they claimed to have been a restaurant since 1416 :-O Fortunately they have upgrade the building since then.
The best part of going to Beijing is anyway… Coming back to Tokyo 🙂
I went on a business trip to Taipei on Sunday night. Spent Monday afternoon at a partner site to explain our expectations on them from an Open Source compliance perspective. In the evening I walked from the office to the subway station to ride back to the hotel. At the subway station I got a view of the Taipei 101 tower. Or at least a view of the part that was not hidden in the clouds.
Spent a week in Beijing on business. A very busy week with hosting a training for two days and the other days filled with workshops and meetings. In the evenings I had dinner with the external trainer and some colleagues from our Lund office.
The last night of the training we had Peking Duck with the external trainer from Black Duck Software. It was my first time 🙂 The skin was really nice and tasty.
This week I have been in Beijing on a business trip again. As usual Beijing was grey and smoggy. This time it was also cold, -8 degrees some days. So the river I follow to get to the office in the morning was frozen, but that is an improvement from the greenish and smelly water that usually tries to flow in it.
While away on business trip there is not much you can do. Most of the day you are busy at the office. Once you get off in the evening there is not really any time available to do anything interesting, besides having dinner with friends and go to the gym at the hotel. So that is basically what I did this week too. I went to the gym twice. And had dinner with friends twice.
Then it was time to do the best part of being on a business trip… Coming home 🙂 Though this time I went directly home to have a 3 hours teleconf meeting 🙁