… No, it’s just his lane.
Back from London as of last night and still feeling the effects of the late nights, early mornings, finance-ese overdose as well as the constant state of transportation I seemed to be in… In fact, due to the lateness of my arrival in London on Sunday night my total transit from A (Dublin) to B (Tower Hill, London) went like this:
Walk (to bus-stop… with bags) -> Get bus (to Airport) -> Get plane (to Heathrow) -> Get tube (to Hammersmith) -> Get tube (to Earls Court) -> Get bus (from Earls Court to Trafalgar Square, because the trains had finished for the night) -> Get bus (to Tower Hill) -> Arrive at hotel at 2AM on Monday morning… about 2 hours later than intended.
I can tell you that wandering around a huge city I didn’t know after midnight was not my part of the plan, especially considering the fact said plan relied entirely on the tube system, something I didn’t think finished up so early (stupid trains).
I was in the city at the invite of Lloyd’s of London and the UK Foreign Office; the intention of the visit was to show foreign journalists the city’s financial and insurance markets. I’ll be the first to admit that anything of any great detail went way above my head but at the same time there was plenty to take in. All in all I now have a much better understanding of insurance, finance, stock exchanges etc., which I guess should be a ‘job done’ for the organisers. I’ll also likely have some form or article related to it on Sunday too.
I had hoped to blog from the hotel but the lack of wifi (it was a wierd system where only Orange Bill Pay customers could use the service, but they got it for free…) hindered that intention.
Fingers crossed I’ll be blogging regularly again as of now; I’ve let myself break the habit and haven’t given myself the time to get back into it until now. I also have plenty of articles to put online, including a few I missed out on last week… the website itself hasn’t been updated in a month either, which is annoying too.