Call me spoiled, I say I am just used to having the Internet at my beck and call, I live in Canada and that’s how I like it! I did realize when Dave and I set out on our business/vacation trip this time that there might be some challenges with the Internet, but not to the point where I felt cut off from mankind! This is our second trip to Geneva and we were booked to stay in a different hotel, but as it was close to Dave’s corporate offices, it made sense to us. Having the promise of WIFI in all of the rooms made us feel secure and safe in the knowledge we could carry on with our work regardless.
We arrived on a Sunday afternoon so when we worked out the WIFI was not working and informed the hotel we were OK about being told it could not be fixed until Monday, but when it was fixed and we still had no signal in our room, and the business centre was very small and crowded, we were very disappointed. Throughout the whole of our stay in Geneva we were cut off from the outside world, and more importantly Dave could not even access work through his VPN.
This may sound quite silly to people who are not quite so dependent on the Internet for work and keeping in touch with family around the world, but for me it was, quite literally like the end of the world! Not only did I have a presentation to finish off so that I could inspire my audience in Geneva, I had urgent emails that needed to be sent and I also wanted to know my family in Canada were aware we had arrived safe and sound.
Obviously we got through this challenge and flew to Dublin to check into yet another hotel, and yes our expectations this time were, let’s wait and see before we get excited about WIFI connections.
At least the customer service at this hotel was better, we were about 3 hours from Dublin in a small town called Letterkenny, and once we discovered the WIFI signal in our room was non-existent they handed over 3 keys to different rooms so we could find another room that did have a decent signal. Unfortunately this was not to be so we unpacked and the next morning were told that a room with a great signal would be available later that day, wonderful.
So now we are all set, I am back on track and just wonder what on earth to expect when we fly to London, UK in a week, fingers crossed the Internet there is great!
Check out more blog entries here, thanks: http://blog.motivationalsteps.com/2011/05/no-internet-did-i-fly-to-the-moon/
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