31 December 2005
Happy new still at work
Yesterday I filed a story on visiting the sets of Sergio Leone's 'spaghetti' Westerns in the Tabernas desert of Andalucia (a little inland from Almeria). Tonight I'm working on a longer piece on touring round the vineyards of the Yarra Valley outside Melbourne. Tomorrow it will be something on Gibraltar, and on Ushuaia in Argentina. Then I have to work rapidly on the DK Beijing and Shanghai title before filing something on Quanzhou (China) on the 10th, and on Buenos Aires on the 11th.
A couple of weeks ago I was being ferried round Beijing in a Rolls-Royce, staying in suites at some of the city's very best hotels. Had I written about that at the time you would have started on about 'perfect job' again, wouldn't you?
Presently I'll have to produce articles and gazetteer entries for guide books to justify all that. And now fireworks are going off to mark the New Year. I'll spend the first two hours of it finishing the first draft of this story so I can file it tomorrow morning before starting on the other two.
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