Charles Poulsen

Well I’m here in the UK… and its a long time since the last update!

I finished up work in Australia, ran around like mad trying to organise myself, but I was slightly distracted by the good surf in my last week at home). Then I boarded Singapore Airlines to Singapore, then boarded an A380 (the largest passenger plane in the world) for the trip to London.

Since we stopped over in Singapore, I picked up a bottle of Bombay Sapphire (bombay duck according to fielder!) and a new Olympus shockproof / waterproof camera, a 1030 SW.

Then it was onto an A380 which are the largest passenger aeroplanes in the world. I believe Singapore Airlines are the only ones to have them yet, but I could be wrong there. The flight was fairly uneventful, just long and uncomfortable! The A380′s have a really cool entertainment system which I think is based on Mythtv or windows media center, or something like that. There was about 108 on-demand movies to choose from! I had heard Singapore Airlines was the best airline in the world but I think Thai Airways kicks its ass in the food department.

So I arrived in London at 5:30 AM, and quickly found myself a coffee as I was slightly struggling. I was being picked up by Gus who is a new colleague of mine, and who I am currently staying with. Gus picked me up, and we headed off to Reading. Gus is into paragliding and was heading out that day. Even though I was seriously jetlagged I decided to go check out the paragliding. It looks pretty cool, and I think I’ll give it a go one day soon.

Check out these photos on flickr.

Saturday night, while even more severely jetlagged, we went for a bike ride so Gus could show me around town. I ran into Mike from Perth on the street, who is working over here. We ended up going to the Hop Leaf pub for a few pints. I had a second wind! Eventually I got to bed around midnight, absolutely exhausted, and passed out.

Sunday I met up with a friend in London, and we went to Hampstead Heath park since it was a nice day. Drinking Fosters in the park, awesome. People were swimming in the pond there but it looked pretty dirty to me.

Monday I started work. I’ve got a new Nokia E51 phone, and a Dell Latitude D630 laptop. Finally I’ve got a dual-core. The last few days have been spent getting myself set up on the systems here and trying to organise stuff like bank accounts.

Work is looking a bit quiet until I get onto a project. No idea where that might be!

Well thats it for now.. More to come soon!