Novotel Darling Harbour Sydney

Auckland airport. It's nice, you understand, but when you have been there for 6 hours and you know you still have 4 to go before you can take off it kinda loses its appeal. I managed to grab a couple of hours of snooze time on some chairs but then some weird bloke came over to talk about the sunrise. I think I must have had my nutter magnet turned up again - it's usually America where it's strongest, but I must have had a relapse. And not long after some even weirder guy, i think he was a hom...

I woke up this morning a bit tired, a bit achy, very burnt, and a little bit miserable. But then I remembered that I was in Australia, I was okay and that there were lots of things still to do. My breakfast turned up at 9am. I don't know what it is about the size of breakfasts in this part of the world but I had enough food to feed the entire floor - my scrambled eggs were mountainous and as for the bacon, there was 9 slices of it!! Was that entirely necessary?? I had to take the croissant ou...

I woke up fairly early this morning and was pleased to see yet again that the sun was streaming through the window. The radio indicated that it was going to be another hot one so I thought I would make sure I went out with my suncream and plenty of water. I headed over to the monorail and caught that into the City Centre. I went back to the SkyTower but the queue was very long so I went into town. I doscovered the National Opal Museum so I went down the winding staircase and had a look around...

Monday morning, yet another hot and sunny day. As I drew back the curtains after a considerable lie-in I saw the sun was shining and I was quite sad that the conference was about to begin as it would mean not seeing any sun for days on end. I had arranged to meet the team at the conference venue at 1pm as this was set up time. When I arrived there Jen and Hannah were already there, so we collected our very sexy orange exhibitor vests (just so the forklift truck driver could see when he was go...

Yet another beautiful sunny day today. The radio announced that it was possibly going to hit 37 degrees today, so I was a bit concerned what with having the Harbour Bridge climb later on in the day. Still, first things first - must get the important things out of the way, like breakfast! I was escorted down to breakfast where we indulged in the continental choice, a nice variety of cereals, fruits, yogurts and pastries. The conference started at 10am so I headed over there at about five to. A...

The alarm rudely went off at 6:45am, meaning I had acquired approximately 5 hours sleep. I felt so morose I wondered how I would make it through the day! I left my escort and headed over to the breakfast, picking up Jen on the way, at about 7:25am. When we got there two tables were already filled, so we chose another one to spread ourselves out a bit. We ended with ¾ of the tables being filled, which was fairly good going. The food was excellent, individual cereals, fruit salads, a variety of...

Oh my, I was so unbelievably tired this morning. So much so, that I overslept and was late to the conference by almost half an hour. I missed breakfast so ended up getting a takeaway from KFC. Oh the shame of it!!! Still, I was helped in eating it by other members of the stand, so it couldn't have been too bad an idea. The last day of the conference went much the same way as the other two. We were very busy, I met lots of useful people and have a few deals in the pipeline. Which is good, beca...

The last day of the week and the last day of the conference. Finally. I didn't realise how tiring these events are sometimes. It is exasperated by my having to wear my contact lenses for way too long each day, not having my glasses with me. I really need to get some more quick! So anyway, it was the Health Satellite event today - this was more Hannah's thing but I said I would go along and keep her company. There may also have been some useful people there for me, which wasn't the case in the...

And so my last day in Sydney. I'm sad whilst writing this for a number of reasons - not least because this is a truly beautiful city and I am sad to see friends leaving again. This morning, with lie-ins being allowed saw me get up at about 10:30, but a lot of faffing around meant I didn't leave the hotel until about an hour later. My escort and I went to get ice cream (guava and mango this time) on the way to check him out of his hotel, thinking it would be easier for him to store stuff at mi...

1st: 16-18 Nov 2008

I had asian foods these 2 days in Australia... OMG...


2nd: 13-15 Sep 2008