Finally back home. The trip was exellent from a job point of view. From personal fun point of view? No. Did meet some really nice and interesting people who did their best to influence coming changes.
Arrived in Västerås on Monday evening after having been waiting for the bus at the airport for over an hour. Never again. Next time I'll try the train. The hotel, a five star hotel was .. like any other hotel. Don't really know why they have a five star rating. After check-in I hit the bed and fell asleep. Before falling asleep I noticed that the sheets had holes in them. Five star indeed.
In the morning I had a fast breakfast as the place was packed. Afterwards I took a brisk walk to the meeting place in the center of the city. The whole day was spent in the same meeting with a break now and then as people were mostly (towards the end of the day) starting to fall asleep (jet lag and stuff). But I got what I came for so I was happy and had a shit load of feedback from the pilot users.
We had two hours before the evening dinner so I hit a bookstore and bought some books for the children which they will be getting for christmas and birthdays. The dinner place turned out to be the same as the last time which was nice as the food in the place is good and the service excellent. Got back to the hotel around midnight while the others continued to another bar.
Got up at 6.15 and hit the shower and after a more fulfilling breakfast this time (as the place was almost empty) I went to the morning meeting to see what must be one of the most conservative units the company. Nothing was good and their way ruled the earth. Sigh. Oh well. After the meetings I went back to the previous day group and ended up at the factory looking at robots doing this and that. They had a cool robot which picked apart wooden boxes and placed the parts neatly in a pile to a certain height and they it started over. Nice.
The rest of the day was mostly off so I did some work while I had a chance. Then it was a cab to the airport and home. Tried to get cigaretts for Snusnu but they were only for outside EU destination travelers so I skipped that. Bought him some candy instead. Tried to get him a small bottle of Absolut vodka (2ml?) but I ended having to drink it myself because as the cashier lady expressed it "It is the rule". Right-o.
Blue1 is to say the least an interesting company. For some reason they fly faster than I can remember all the other airlines doing to and from Stockholm to Helsinki. The trip goes something like this: After the plane has taken off and the fasten seatbelts sign is turned off a stewardes comes along, showes a bun into your face and pours some hot coffee in your lap which is followed by an annoucement to the cabin personel to prepare for crashing at the destination airport. I meen, 45 minutes. When did it become this fast?
Now. I'm. Hitting. Bed.
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