{"id":2842,"date":"2014-01-02T12:04:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T17:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2842"},"modified":"2014-01-02T12:07:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T17:07:50","slug":"new-years-note-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/02\/new-years-note-2014","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s note, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/11711969214\/\" title=\"DSCF1396 by byte, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5499\/11711969214_f340610681_n.jpg?resize=320%2C213\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" alt=\"DSCF1396\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\"\/><\/a> As is becoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/01\/01\/happy-new-year\">tradition<\/a>, this year we celebrated the New Year&#8217;s Eve in London, and on New Year&#8217;s day we moved from London to Zurich. We woke up on New Year&#8217;s Eve in Amsterdam, so there were a lot of British Airways plane rides (now offering gate-to-gate usage of your tablets, kindles, phones). This past year, we threw the usual Christmas open house and only left on the 26th &#8212; something that I think was very useful, as I got to see a lot of old friends whom I don&#8217;t normally manage to catch up with (noon-8pm this time around).<\/p>\n<p>In terms of travel, 2013 brought on 27 trips (36 last year), visiting 17 countries (20 last year), and 35 cities (42 last year). I only spent 223 days on the road (262 last year), and did 305,399 miles (456,110 miles previously). I&#8217;m still on my 28th trip so the stats are a bit munged now.<\/p>\n<p>2014 is something I&#8217;m looking forward to. There are lots of exciting things brewing. I plan to travel a little less, looking at having more of a home base. I&#8217;m writing this after an exciting day walking around Zurich. I haven&#8217;t written a retrospective of 2013, and I never seem to do (i.e. look back), but when I look forward, I just see good things happening overall. Think positive, and all that ;-)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m taking more photos again (I now carry a more pocketable camera, the Fujifilm X-E2, which I picked up before Christmas). OK, signing off, time to go back to real life. Happy New Year&#8217;s! May it be prosperous for you (heard on British Airways, its clear the influence from China is now stronger).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As is becoming tradition, this year we celebrated the New Year&#8217;s Eve in London, and on New Year&#8217;s day we moved from London to Zurich. We woke up on New Year&#8217;s Eve in Amsterdam, so there were a lot of British Airways plane rides (now offering gate-to-gate usage of your tablets, kindles, phones). 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