My European World Tour

I had a great week of shooting at the Hyatt in Kiev. They rented a scissor lift for me and I shot the exterior at dusk from four stories in the air. It was an hour before I was off to the airport and I had arranged to show my hotel contact some of the images. My laptop would not turn on. It wasn't the battery. It wasn't the power supply. I calmly assured her that the info is there. She said, "I must have broken it?" so we left it at that. My work tried to send me a new one to Scotland but UPS changed their service so I didn't get it. We tried again in London but it was another near miss. All my travel photos are on there so I'll post some when I can.

Here's my schedule. I'm currently on the Carnival Splendor in the Baltics heading towards Russia. I'm not sure how many of the ports I'll actually get to see as that is when I'll do most of my work. But I've been to most of these places anyways, including St.Petersburg. In Russia, you can't just get off the ship and walk around like when I was there in 1992, you have to be part of an official tour.

July
7 fly to London
8 shoot Hyatt Churchill, London
12 fly to Scotland
13 shoot Fairmont, St.Andrews
19 paid rest day - free golf at the Fairmont!
20 fly to Venice
21 sit day in Venice
22 shoot Emerald Princess
23 fly to Paris
24 shoot Hotel Westminster, Paris
25 shoot Hotel Warwick, Paris
26 fly to Hamburg, Germany
27 shoot Fairmont Vier Jahreszeiten, Hamburg
Aug
3 fly from Hamburg to Murcia, Spain
4 shoot Hyatt La Manga, Spain
7 fly from Spain to Birmingham, England
8 shoot Hyatt Birmingham
9 travel to London, shoot Hyatt Andaz Liverpool
11 fly from London to Kiev, Ukraine
12 shoot Hyatt Kyiv, Ukraine
19 fly from Kiev to Edinburgh, Scotland for vacation
20 stay Fairmont St.Andrews with my dad
21 golf - Old Course St.Andrews - parred four holes! cost $260
22 golf - Carnoustie - parred two holes! cost $300
23 golf - New Course St.Andrews - birdied first hole! cost $160
only lost one ball all three days and was only in four sandtraps!
24 travel to Aberdeen, Scotland - visit with friends Vicki and Steve
25 Speyside Whisky distillery tours. Macallan, Cardhu, lunch in Aberlour
My most expensive drink ever, a 40 year old Aberlour, cost ... $70!
26 Edinburg, Scotland - tried a 32 year old Oban for $15, amazing
28 fly to London, stay in May Fair hotel, paparazzi everywhere
29 paid rest day in London
Tate Modern, Borough Market, Vinopolis, British Film Institute
30 transfer to Dover to Carnival Splendor - 3000 passangers, new ship
31 at sea
Sept
1 Copenhagen, Denmark
2 Berlin
3 at sea
4 Tallin, Estonia
5 St.Petersburg, Russia (overnight)
7 Helsinki, Finland
8 at sea
9 at sea
10 Amsterdam, Netherlands
11 Dover - transfer to London, stay at May Fair Hotel
12 fly home to Vancouver

I'll be home for probably a week and then off again!