Well, I do not personally take 3-5 months hollidays, but I do travel
a bit for work. Piggybag a few days of vacation either in the end of
the stay or in the beginning (usually, it is possible to make the
company pay the hotel when staying over a saturday night and
accepting a monkey-class ticket - the airfare is thus usually reduced
by 50%).
By careful advance planning, it makes something like this week
possible for me: I am in Tunisia for work for 5 days. Add 2 extra
days in the end, one in the beginning, plan the work sufficiently in
advance and work hard upon arrival -- and I will be done with
"official duties" by noon, whereupon I will see about chartering a
camel and riding off in the sunset (or some such thing) until my
flight home sunday night :)
That said, in Europe, at least, we are well off on the vacation
front. France recently enforced a 35h workweek, which in many lines
of work translates into "still long workdays" but a truckload of
vacation -- I think up to some 95 days/year is not uncommon if you
keep he usual 60h workweek.
--thomas
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 16:51:19 +0800
"C.H.Ling-Accura" <chling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> How can your guys have three to five months holiday? I can only
> dream that, may only be realized after retire but it has to wait
> for almost 20 years! Or the poor economic situation push me to stop
> working but then I may not have the mood to travel :-) For oversee
> trip (usually 5-6 days) I usually take two rolls of slide and one
> rolls of negative a day, I consider it too much since there is no
> time to really enjoy the holiday just busy shooting but we may only
> have chance to do that once a year so you just want to shoot as
> much as you can.
>
> C.H.Ling
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > So you're on holidays in NZ? After my own experience with
> > visiting that country recently I can only agree that there are
> > really many photo opportunities. We shot 17 rolls of slide film
> > (600 frames) and some 800 digipics in the 3 months we've been
> > there. That equals the same 7-8 photos a day as we were the two
> > of us.
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Bernd
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Daniel Mitchell" <danmitchell@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > > I just counted up the number of films I've had printed since
> > getting to NZ,
> > > and it's a grand total of 54 (24-exposure) rolls in the last 5
> > 1/2 months;
> >
>
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