Work trip to NZ via Melbourne

This week will be travel. I am working on a project for the Shell refinery in New Zealand and this week I'm going for first time to see the customers, prepare the system for the upgrade, which will then do sometime in May. And since I have a colleague in Melbourne, we decided that it is appropriate to spend a day there with him and prepare everything here. So on Monday morning I departed to Melbourne, Tuesday to spend time in the office with a colleague and then together on Wednesday we will fly to New Zealand, where we will be until Friday.

In Melbourne it starts just beautifully. On Monday I have a day off, because they have a national holiday here, so I'm just relaxing at the hotel. But on Tuesday, it all started. From the hotel, I called the taxi to the office. We have made about two kilometers and taxi - Indian driver, they are all Indians here - it bumped into a stationary truck on the highway in the city. Car totally smashed the front and I had a pain in my back. Nothing nice. So I called an another taxi directly from the hotel hoping for normal driver, but again only Indian came so I was left nothing but hope that this time it will work out. They drive here very crazy. I do not know, is it because they have F1 circuit so everyone is playing for Schumacher or what. But they drive crazy, total wilderness.

After that the day at work went normally. On the way to the hotel luckily nothing happened and tomorrow I will fly to New Zealand, so I'm curious how it looks there even though I know that I can't see much, since we're going there for business, not pleasure.