This week has seen me visit Toronto for the first time and saw me arrive on Monday and depart Friday lunchtime. A five-hour flight and a time zone change of 3 hours just to visit the main headquarters of Mercedes-Benz Canada for a week of induction meetings. Previously, it never took that long to get to the Mercedes UK offices in Milton Keynes or even to the global HQ in Stuttgart - wherever I was coming from. I suppose that is the joy of Canada and its massive, geographic expanse. Couple of quick facts for you.... Canada is the second largest country in the world (after Russia of course) with 3,855,100 square miles and makes up 6.7% of the world's total land mass.
Anyway, my week in Toronto was pretty uneventful - saw the airport, decent hotel, endured the nightmare traffic and peered at the CN Tower from a distance. I met with a number of people at the Mercedes offices and all of them were very welcoming. I can now certainly say that I worked for the MB organisation in three different continents and as a good friend once said I have spent over a third of my life with the one company. What a terrifing thought!!
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A third almost "half your life" you mean. Just thought I would make that thought a little terrifying!!
Cheers. I might look that young, but not quite 50% of my life with MB quite yet. Working on it though!
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