Pieter’s Rap

Just an update from Wellington. My work is taking me to the South Island this week. I leave Monday morning for Invercargill. This is the most Southern town in New Zealand. Next stop is Antarctica. There is two hospitals I normally call on. A public and a small private hospital. From there I will travel, by car of course, north to visit Dunedin or commonly referred to by visiting rugby teams, as “the house of pain.” There I visit the public hospital, the dental school and a beautiful private hospital, called Mercy Hospital, which has quite a long illustrious history. Dunedin was establish by the Scots and is almost the cousin of Edinburgh in Scotland. It has the same street names. Traveling by car I will drove towards Christchurch on the way stopping at Timaru, as well as Asburton. Both have small public hospitals. This by the way is a very scenic road with the sea on your right hand side and the snow capped Alps on your left side. Quite stunning. Every now and again I will stop to appreciate the scenery. Everything is still rather new to me. I must confess that I still behave like a typical tourist. Luckily I don’t drive where I look. Sometime it is really difficult not to focus on nature around you. Nothing captures my attention as mountains can do. There is just something about them. I will gladly take a vacation to the Rockies in the US, above a holiday on an island any day. Arriving Thursday in Christchurch, I will call on 4 hospitals. Two private and two public hospitals. Hopefully I will experience some decent weather, but I am expecting a chilling experience!

Au revoir from my desk. Will be back on Friday. Have a great week!

Will keep you updated and hopefully with some photos!

This week I will again have the opportunity to visit the South Island. It is part of my regular territory management to visit my customers every 3-4 weeks.  It is quite a privilege to to see the county on my company’s expense. They will of course benefit from the sales that I hopefully will generate on my rendezvous around the country. Monday my first stop will be a town called Invercargill that is the southern most town in New Zealand. Next stop Antartica. Tuesday and Wednesday I plan to be in the House of Pain, Dunedin. Thursday I will be in Christchurch where I will definitely rub some more salt in their wounds due to Crusaders loosing to the Bulls. I will provide some breaking news as I go on my journey.

My first day at work came and was gone in a flash. As with many of my other experiences with the Kiwi’s, the welcome was wonderful. The flight into Auckland was a nice and comfortable 45 minutes and with clear skies most of the way one could see the scenery changing the whole time. From the beautiful and undulating landscpae to the calm see below you, it was a fantastic flight. I did fell a sleep for 10 minutes or so but that could be forgiven, since I only went to bed like 12h00 and had to wake up 5h30 am for my 07h00 am flight. This was also my first time in almost 4 months that I had to wake up that early for something! Read the rest of this entry »