Leisure and work, side by side
Every relocation was also an education
A career spent moving between service desks and service management functions in France, Ireland, Luxembourg and Singapore (and, more recently, leading teams based in India, Malaysia and Colombia) turned out to be as much a cultural education as a professional one. Different countries run meetings differently, disagree differently, and celebrate differently, and none of that shows up in a job description.
The same curiosity carries over off the clock: travelling further afield for its own sake, for the food, the language mistakes, and the small everyday differences that a guidebook never quite captures.
A scratch map of where I’ve been
A real, geographically accurate world map, colour-coded for lived there, visited for work, and visited for leisure. A country can be more than one at once, shown as a stripe of colours. What’s below is a snapshot of my own working copy, which I keep private and update myself as new places get added; this page refreshes from time to time to match it.
Open the map full size · Base map: simple-world-map by Al MacDonald, edited by Fritz Lekschas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
A few stops along the way
The Taj Mahal at sunrise, Mount Fuji from a passing train, the Merlion and Gardens by the Bay at night in Singapore, the Trevi Fountain in Rome, Luxembourg lit up after dark, and a sushi dinner and an evening beneath Tokyo Skytree in Japan: a small sample of the stops along the way, for work and for their own sake.
The Taj Mahal, Agra. Mount Fuji from a passing train. The Merlion at night, Singapore. Gardens by the Bay, Singapore. The Trevi Fountain, Rome. Luxembourg by night. Sushi dinner in Tokyo. Beneath Tokyo Skytree.
1 / 8 · The Taj Mahal, Agra. 
2 / 8 · Mount Fuji from a passing train. 
3 / 8 · The Merlion at night, Singapore. 
4 / 8 · Gardens by the Bay, Singapore. 
5 / 8 · The Trevi Fountain, Rome. 
6 / 8 · Luxembourg by night. 
7 / 8 · Sushi dinner in Tokyo. 
8 / 8 · Beneath Tokyo Skytree.
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