Happy Hotel

I’m now on the way back home. I am exhausted. Four late nights and three early mornings mean that I am very much ready for the weekend (and a little afternoon siesta today if I get the chance). Overall it has been a good week with some real highlights. Professionally the re-launch of the group in London went well, as did an initial meeting with a new client yesterday. I met a number of new people in EMC, and I also managed to do a few meetings in the members’ area of the Tate Modern gallery in London so that made for a nice change. Personally I was really happy to be back in Brussels for the first time in a while yesterday. It has been a long time since I was so happy to go back to a hotel – I “lived” in the Crowne Plaza in Rue Gineste for about a year or so when I was working at Fortis. Little had changed, including many of the people who worked there, and I was happy to see the colourful carpets, big beds and black and white mosaic bathroom floors again. I also managed to meet a few old Belgian friends and, very importantly for Sandie, Maxime and the Parents and Teachers Association of Maxime’s village school, I also managed to sell eight “P’tit Monsters” key rings to raise some money for the school. I suspect my other upcoming business trips will see another box of key rings being thrust into my suitcase as I head for the airport – I think that’s called being a victim of my own success. A good week all in all.