Showing posts with label Ko Samui. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ko Samui. Show all posts

Friday, 22 November 2013

Google HQ - Friday 22nd November

Prepare to be WOWed at Google HQ!  Check out The Internship, it's exactly like that!  "Home" to 15,000 people as they go about their daily grind, having fun, being innovative, creating the stuff of movies, Google Glass, driver-less cars... I sound like a TV ad now, but I confess, I was at least a little impressed...

Reception and "That" Dance Floor! 
(That's me, the short one, second from left)


Check out the steps with the LED lighting indicating top down, up to the minute, the most popular search on Google right now... When we arrived, it was the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination in Dallas, no prizes for guessing what the top searches were that day 
(JFK was rather ignominiously replaced by Miley Cyrus by our return on Monday!)


 Fancy a game of Crazy Golf?


 Or prefer to check out Google Earth???


Pause as we all hail Android


 Perhaps a cycle around the campus on one of the 10,000 bikes dotted around the place?


A slide down the slide?  Go on... you know you want to!

Lunch at Charlie's?  Founded by Charlie Ayer's, executive chef 
formerly known as the chef to the stars, servicing the dietary needs of the Grateful Dead


Stuff to see, wherever you look!
Virgin Galactic, prototype


... or shop on campus for those special little gifts...


 Take your dog to work? Sure, not a problem!


Looks fun?  Sure was, lots of WOW factor but honestly, we did do some work too!   No my team back in Bris-Vegas don't believe me either, but we were fortunate to have personalised presentations from Alberto Savoia, who calls himself an Innovation Expert but who is so much more and Mike Yapp (Director @ The Zoo, a Google creative team) as well as several others equally worthy of note.

But finally, back to San Fran and dinner at One Market



On Monday, we head back to Google, with an opportunity to check out Google Glass... check back in for more great pics... but first we have our hop-on/hop-off bus tour on Saturday as well as wine tasting in the Napa Valley to look forward to .... exhausting!

Thursday, 26 July 2012

Planning Commences....

So this is it.... we are overdue for a holiday! The planning has begun.... where shall we go?

A cruise perhaps?

 

 

 Canada maybe?

Lake Minnewanka, Banff, Alberta, Canada

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Zealand again?

Ruby Bay, South Island, NZ

I know!!! ... Thailand!!! Vietnam, Cambodia....!!!!   So point him in the right direction and off he goes... K in research heaven! Check out the web sites.....  ... asiawebdirect.com - so OK - we've got it narrowed down to a continent at least... that's something.... and the timing... November, sounds great....

uh ohhhhh.... not sure about what dear??

Well, OK, mild disappointment but OK... I can run with it...let's focus on Thailand... Bangkok.com here we come.... now we have it narrowed down to a country.... how about a few days in Chiang Mai? Let's play with the elephants, see the beautiful scenery, visit the temples?  Yes, I'm liking this... then down to Ko Samui, bit of beach-time R&R... perhaps a few trips on the water, maybe even a cruise .... loving it.... then back to Bangkok, meet up with some local friends, enjoy the delights of Thai food?  Holiday heaven.... let's book it....

So we did!!