La Cucina, Kenilworth
Monday, April 14th, 2008I’ve been sent to Coventry. Not in the metaphorical, but literal sense. On business to be precise. I have a 9:0am meeting in the morning with Barclays Bank and to travel down to get there reliably from Leeds would require me to rise and shine at 5:0am. No self-respecting wino does that.
The marvels of modern technology mean that my laptop simply connects via a 3G card to the internet, and using something called “VPN” (nothing to do with panty lines, no) I can work as if in the office, from anywhere in the world, although at 10% of the speed. All of this means that instead of finishing work at about 7pm, I am still at it at 9:30. Fortunately, La Cucina is still open on a Monday night and most of the remaining customers are Italian, which is encouraging.