{"id":11733,"date":"2008-02-13T15:25:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T22:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/02\/13\/off-on-the-road-to.html"},"modified":"2008-02-13T15:25:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T22:25:46","slug":"off_on_the_road_to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/13\/off_on_the_road_to.html","title":{"rendered":"Off on the road to &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Dutch goodness!\" height=\"115\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/dutch.jpg\" width=\"113\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&#8230; the Netherlands!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re finally kicking off the next phase of our global HR system deployment, and will be having the kickoff meeting at our office in Leiden in the Netherlands. Which makes it my first business trip of the year, my first trip out of country in over a year, my first visit to mainland Europe, and my first visit to a country that doesn&#8217;t (officially) speak English.<\/p>\n<p>The trip, in March,&nbsp;will be about a week&#8217;s worth of time, on paper &#8212; leaving Monday morning, arriving in the Netherlands Tuesday morning, meetings Wednesday-Saturday, official sightseeing Sunday, flying home Monday (and arriving home Monday, thanks to the wonders of time zones).<\/p>\n<p>I fly via O&#8217;Hare, alas, with a plane change.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Various questions I need to get resolved:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Will my Blackberry work (voice, data)?<\/li>\n<li> Need a quick touring\/translation book (yes, they mostly all can speak English, and yes, I&#8217;ll generally be with other travelers. It&#8217;s both polite and safe to have something that I can use to speak\/decipher Dutch, other than three years of German in high school).<\/li>\n<li> Need to figure out my adapters for using whatever they use for power outlets there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That all said, my biggest irk is that, since I really have to use the company travel agency, it&#8217;s like pulling teeth to do an upgrade, even with all my travel miles, other than at the gate. So I&#8217;ll likely be crushed into steerage during the trip, both ways.<\/p>\n<p>Still &#8211; exciting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the Netherlands! 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