The Sandstone Team Building Blog

Hi all. I thought I would do this month’s report from a different angle - by telling you about two of our trips to foreign lands north and south to deliver two great team building events. We have done some miles this month, with the first journey of any significance being the slow ferry from Newcastle to Norway. Malcolm and I chugged our way across a very calm North Sea, meeting up in beautiful Stavanger with the rest of our team, all of whom had flown there, for an excellent Wild West event. On our return to England we just managed to squeeze in another event in Cheltenham before heading off the following day for another Wild West event to North Africa - Algeria no less! On arrival in Algiers we were met with wall to wall sunshine and a temperature of 31 degrees.

Thankfully, we had our own driver running us around. Travelling the 40 minutes from the airport to the hotel was a real eye opener. It was a bit like being in the Indy 500! Three marked lanes were consistently and constantly ignored. In front and behind it more often resembled five lanes of madly weaving cars, all jostling for positions at speed. It was no wonder only about one car in every thousand was in pristine condition without any panel damage. A total contrast to Norway, where you only needed to look like you were going to cross the road and the showroom-quality cars would stop for you. Road politeness in abundance everywhere we went. So - two great events in far away places, opposite directions and especially opposite driving styles that tie for my event of the month selection.

Catch you all again next month, if you are off on your holidays before my next entry have a good one, but if you are going to Algeria my advice is simple. Don’t tick the “fly/drive” box!

Paul