New England Staycation July 2017 - Day 5 Sleepless In Madrid

[debidee]

So I'm sleepless in Madrid! To rewind the flight was uneventful- just under 7 hours and I didn't sleep at all! With the time difference it was really only late evening when I arrived at 6.30am! I was slightly concerned I needed to be at the hotel for 8am and of course we landed at the furthest runway! It was all ok though and I was through security in less than 5 mins with only carry on! I spotted this cute bag on route!

So we started at 8am and I was facilitating the whole session and presenting - this was about the only view I got from Madrid!

The sessions were really good but I was struggling big time to stay awake and focused! These little sweets helped a bit!

Here is my room which I got to at about 5pm - the plan of course was to take power nap then go explore Madrid... so... 6 hours later, local time 11.45pm and several missed messages / calls here I am!

Here is my dinner! It hardly seems worth this update but I thought I'd say hi anyway given I'm wide awake!
I'm getting picked up at 9.30am for the airport and I'm really hoping there is a Starbucks! I land back at just after 2pm... so holiday will resume tomorrow afternoon!

Until then... Debs xx

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New Photo Added by debidee - 14 Jul 17 11:34 PM.

[mrsdjh]

I'm not surprised you had a little nap! It definitely was a flying visit. Hope you manage to sleep a bit tonight Debs.

[Megandllsmum]

Blimey that was a whirlwind tour Debbie, no wonder you are shattered! Safe flight back catch a few zzzzz's on the plane and I look forward to reading your staycayion updates soon x

[Jake71]

Ooooooft no wonder you shattered, glad the sessions went well and I hope you manage some sleep on the flight home.

[JoJo88]

Crikey Debs, that really was a whistle stop your (or no tour! )

Hope the flight home puts you back on track x

[scottishnellie]

Wow no wonder you were tired 😴.

Pity about missing exploring Madrid.

What do you present sessions about? I'm so nosy sorry!

[debidee]

Hahahaha you are funny! I am a global business operations director in Professional Services so yesterday I was hosting the sessions for all of our technical consultants and project mngt. I also did a session on Finance 101, utilization and then ran team exercises... we hold 3 technical summits a year - this was the Europe one, I'm in Bangkok next weekend and then Orlando in August...I love it but not as glam as it sounds with the travel xxx

[Scotty]

Flying visit indeed, well done you. I couldn't do it - too much of a home bird! You definitely need to get home for a holiday.

[scottishnellie]

Originally Posted by debidee

Hahahaha you are funny! I am a global business operations director in Professional Services so yesterday I was hosting the sessions for all of our technical consultants and project mngt. I also did a session on Finance 101, utilization and then ran team exercises... we hold 3 technical summits a year - this was the Europe one, I'm in Bangkok next weekend and then Orlando in August...I love it but not as glam as it sounds with the travel xxx

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Thanks! Although if I'm honest I still don't know what professional services are Or technical consultants that do what. I am totally fascinated by the amount of travelling you do to so many different countries. It does look glam from here, but I suppose all that travelling must be exhausting.

I don't even like the travel part of going on holiday. I always say if I had a superpower it would be to wiggle my nose like rentaghost and be transported to where ever I wanted to be, and anyone holding on to me would be transported to! Ahhh that would be heaven.