Review of 2013

The last posting for another year and the end of the fourth year of this blog; Time seems to be passing so fast these days. 2014 brought 118 flights totalling 331 hours and visiting 45 different airports in 25 different countries flying 247,500Km. I created 31.5 tonnes of CO2 1.68Kgs of methane (by flying before you ask) and 1.37 tonnes of Nitrous oxide.  

Businesswise I thought 2012 was tough but 2013 was tougher still, I ended up having to close down businesses in the France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. but my businesses in the Czech Republic and Warsaw had a storming year making more money than all the other businesses put together over the last five years.  2014 should leave me clear to expand these business again but there are a couple of icebergs that have to be navigated in the last quarter of the year.  Closing the businesses has reduced my travel slightly but increased the distance travelled on each flight, I took 5 less flights but flew over 50 hours more than 2012. I see this trend continuing in 2014 with three visits to the Far East already planned and one of these extending across the Pacific to Hawaii.  

Highlights for 2013 were my first visit to the South pacific with a visit to Fiji and my first visit to Hong Kong for a number of years. I still get a huge amount of pleasure about my volunteering in the local school Football club and ATC unit. Being a workaholic these allow me to divert my attention away from my “work” to other “work”.

2014 has, as I indicated, three trips to the Far East along with other European trips and I am sure a number of other trips as well.