Back from the Ukraine

I am back from the Ukraine – and very happy about it too.



I went out for a week to see the new office, review progress on a few projects, meet some of our new developers and iron out a few issues. On the whole a successful trip, but we’ll soon see how the new developers and project manager fit in. I’ve raised my expectations so the challenge is no on to see if the team can deliver!



But the week ended in a bit of a downer. My journey home was a nightmare following this series of unfortunate events:

1. My connecting flight to Kiev looked to be delayed because of ice on the runway. Things looked good when we did get clearance to fly with plenty of time to make my next flight, sadly it all went downhill quickly….
2. An airport official who has stopped me but II refused to pay at his subtle “you help me, I help you” prompts. This resulted in a long questioning and full search of all my bags and clothes by him and an colleague.
3. Landing in Kiev I strolled from one terminal to another and got mugged by a nice chap with a gun.
4. I still made it back, but instead of flying to Gatwick I had to fly to Heathrow and get a bus to Gatwick to get to my car.
5. And finally my trip back up round the M25 was a little stressful as my car wasn’t firing on all cylinders.

Going to the Ukraine is always such fun! Still I have discovered that they get a hell of a lot of snow out there, and there’s some good slopes, so next time my next winter season trip I’ll so a little snowboarding too.