Starting the year with a one nighter to Milan!

After clocking some 250,000 miles of air travel last year, spending about 10 months away from home, and passing through the best and worst airports in the world, one of my new years' eve resolutions is to travel less this year. This one I intend to keep. At least so long as it is within my power to do so.

To start off, I didn't travel this Xmas. I let someone else do the travel and come to visit me over the holidays. It was nice to be home for a change, and not having to battle the queues at the airport. My contribution to the hole on the ozone layer this Xmas: nil, nada, zippo!

Work dictates that I travel, so I do. The first trip this year was to Milan and was supposed to be a 2-night away affair, but I've managed to cram everything I needed to do in one day, ran to Malpensa airport and got back to Zurich just over 24 hours after I left. Great to be back home again and not having to suffer another night on a anonymous hotel bed, after yet another dinner in a restaurant I didn't feel like going to anyway.