For my last weekend in Europe I met up with my Swedish friend Carolin Olsson in Italy. She had been holidaying down on Lago Maggiore with her family around the Swiss town of Locarno, so I flew into Milano and we met up in Verbania on the Italian side of the lake. On Saturday, Read More
It’d been ages since I’d last seen my old pal Seren Macleod from Melbourne (she lives in Edinburgh these days), so when she suggested we meet up over a weekend while I was working in Germany, Brussels seemed like the ideal "let’s meet halfway" place. I’ve been to Belgium a few times before to, Read More
Over the summer of 2005 I spent 10 weeks in Bonn, Germany working as an intern for Deutsche Post World Net (DPWN), the parent company of logistics giant DHL. I was placed in the Corporate Development department and worked on a great project to develop a global climate change strategy for the company. The, Read More
I received a week of annual leave while I was working at Deutsche Post/DHL over the summer – I couldn’t believe it either! – and so I took a week off work to travel around Sicily. I flew into Catania on the east coast and made straight for Agrigento, a five, Read More