Not quite now, but on Monday. I am planning to do the following in the city of ceaseless commerce, trading and bartering:

• Find a place for the Missus and I to live
• Visit the companies I met last time and try to get some orders from them. And meet new ones too. Dammit.
• Meet with an accountant and see what kind of costs/deadlines they can offer regarding creating a representative office and getting me and the Missus resident visas.
• Visit Macau, not for pleasure.
• Get basic services installed in our future flat installed, like ADSL and telephone.
• Visit Singapura, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Seoul, Taipei, Denpasar, not – ostensibly – for pleasure.
• Try to split that 8-week biz trip in two smaller trips with a visit to Bordeaux in between.

That should keep me busy…

While being officially an expat, I still reside in Bordeaux – not for long though – and I am for a few more days at HQ. However, next Monday I will fly back to Hong Kong, and many other places after that. Not too surprisingly, mostly the same as last trip… I will try to post a map/schedule later.

Some time ago, El Jeffe decided he’d visit a few places in the South-West. Namely, some vineyards near Perpignan, in France, in the Priorat region near Reus, Spain, and in the Toro region, between Valladolid. So last Thursday we flew there:

Short trips in his private jets followed by longer trips on the road. We were home by 8:30pm. But quite tired…

1. March 9/10: BDO - CDG, CDG - ICN
2. March 12: GMP - HND
   Will be attending FoodEx 2007 in Tokyo
3. March 17: HND - GMP
4. March 21: ICN - HKG
5. March 25: HKG - SIN
6. March 28/29: SIN - CDG, CDG - BDO
   March 28: SIN - JKT
   March 28: SIN - KUL
7. March 29: KUL - JKT
8. March 30: JKT - DPS
   March 30: DPS - JKT
9. March 31: JKT - SIN
10. March 31/April 1: SIN - CDG, CDG - BDO

My frequent flyer cards overheated just at the thought of it.

Update
One trip to JKT added to the lot, oh so happy…
Update
One side trip to Kuala Lumpur, and another to Denpasar, Bali. Sigh. Life’s a bitch, eh?

1. November 28, BDO-CDG, CDG-SFO
2. December 4/5, SFO-NRT, NRT-ICN
3. December 7, ICN-HKG, then see last post
4. December 11, Shenzhen-HK by way of KCRC and MTR.
5. December 16, HKG-ICN
6. December 21, ICN-NRT, NRT-SFO
7. December 24/25, SFO-CDG, CDG-BDO

Around 25,000 miles, and feels like much much more…