16 November 2006

The Desperate Life of the Lonely Traveller

You know that you have spent too much time travelling for work, sitting in hotel rooms, departure lounges and aircraft when you pick up the morning paper in Jeddah and reading it over breakfast you notice a story about al Jazeerah finally getting around to starting its English language broadcast. They then give you a list of the reporters there and you notice names like Riz Khan and Veronica Pedrosa .

Apart from knowing the names, the desperation sets in when you think back and can remember Veronica Pedrosa presenting and anchoring the news on BBC Worldwide and CNN International. So travelling for business so long leaves your pin-ups and heroes global news presenters rather than sportsmen and such.

Definitely time to get out of this business :(

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