“Next Stop: Paddington Station”
I am currently on a train bound for London on my way back from a day trip out to Bristol where I visited the United Kingdom head office of Roland DG. It has been pretty much my first chance since arriving in London three days ago to get up to date with my writing having just finished ‘Australia: The land of The Crocodile Hunter and Elle Macpherson – according to Yankee’ a few moments earlier.
The day trip out was great, it was really interesting to see Roland operations from behind the scenes. I was there mainly to meet with their head sales distribution coordinator to do a presentation of the software I have been slaving over for the past three and a half years. As with the stops before, one at Epilog Colorado (Laser Engravers) and another at Vision (Phoenix engravers) the presentation was very well received and as with all three presentations of the software there was something specific that Symmetry performed which resulted in a Wow moment from all of them. I hope this early foot work of introductions leads to some prosperous options down the line. Although it has been somewhat a pain to orchestrate this in with a holiday, it has been beneficial, and it has been great fun to get to know the industry from the other side of the fence. It’s been invaluable really, I have made a lot of good contacts.
Currently I am about five minutes out of London. The train has been rocketing back to Paddington, the scenery a blur of green fields and Victorian style cottages with the odd speedy-blur of a train passing in the opposite direction for dramatic flair. I have truely enjoyed my time in London so far, and would love nothing more to come back in a year or two time and spend a good month just traveling around; spend about four days in London and then hire a car. Very similar to the road trip I did with my folks back in 1997. Mum, Dad, although I loved the holiday at the time, I think its only now that I can truly appreciate how memorable and special you guys made that trip be for me, its been something I have thought a lot about since returning. How I would love to once again hire a car, visit Wales, the pier at South End of Sea and drive through the Lake District and in through the Yorkshire Moors. Next time… or perhaps the ‘time after next’ or the one after that? Colorado definitely left an impression too.
I have arrived at Paddington Station. Time to hit London’s West End.