No longer a Mexican

Moving north of the river to Paddington at the start of August. Trying to organise everything right now.

So may no longer be a Mexican, although I'm still traveling to Oink Oink flu central in Dusseldorf where there was a new case in the office on the same floor as me this week.

Edit: South of the border = Mexican

September Holiday

Booked to go to Barcelona -> Madrid -> Lisbon. Have pretty much organised everything apart from accommodation in Lisbon. The plan is to try to see if I can get tickets to see a Barcelona game at the Nou Camp. That weekend they are scheduled to play Athletico Madrid. I know it's not quite El Classico but it's good enough. Either way, even if I don't get tickets I want to do the stadium tour anyway.

I still have 21 days of leave left in total and taking 5 into next year meaning I still have to take 16 days off by the end of the year. I can probably get a week off per month until end of the year!

Oink Oink flu central

2 weeks ago someone I worked with in Dusseldorf had contact with another person in the office who had swine flu. Today I found out that there was another swine flu outbreak at the client office on Tuesday and they sent a bunch of people home! I should get like danger pay or something. Hopefully I will be fine.

Why so hard?

Have been trying to book accommodation for the World Cup 2010 from 1 July to 3 July in Johannesburg and 3 times we have paid deposit and then for them to tell us oh sorry, we are actually booked out, I thought you meant 2009. Fair enough, despite the fact that I specifically asked for 2010, people make mistakes. That however does not explain the latest episode when they contacted us saying we have availability and the message came AFTER 1 July 2009.

Tomorrow I will try to book flights at the BA ticketing desks at the airport. See what happens then.

So far, got tickets, booked safari trip, however, still no accommodation or flights.