This trip to Europe is coming to an end. I’m in the Brussels airport
waiting for a flight to London Heathrow airport. I’ll spend the night there
and continue the trip home tomorrow (Saturday). It’s been an interesting
trip. The first stop was in Sofia, Bulgaria for two days. I’ve got a lot of
pictures to sort through and some will get posted on the web page. Then I
was in a hotel in the southern outskirts of Gent for the next seven nights.
While there I commuted to our office in Oudenaarde, Belgium about 25
minutes away. I would not choose to stay at the Gent Holiday Inn Expo
again. There’s nothing around so taking a walk is not interesting. I spent
one night in a very small hotel in Oudenaarde. It was downtown in an
interesting area (see the Pictures! page), but I also wouldn’t stay there
again, either. The room was Very Small and Spartan. Somewhere there must be
a good hotel downtown with reasonable Internet access!

The past two nights have been at a hotel near Antwerp for a company
off-site meeting. The hotel is in an old castle with very nicely appointed
rooms and accomodations. We were never able to get Internet working at the
hotel. So other than this Blackberry, I’ve been out of the loop
electronically. I’m looking forward to getting to London and to a wired
hotel!

This Blackberry device is a very good invention, particularly here in
Europe. E-mail and phone access is pretty much available anywhere in
western Europe. It’s very nice to be able to call Nina directly and have
her able to call me at any time she wants without having to know where I
am. Coverage and availability will get better in the US over time, as well.
I like being connected.

Next stop is security and then the long walk to the gate. Soon I’ll be in
London!

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Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld