It's the furthest east I'll have ever been (previously Berlin) and also by far the furthest from home (previous Toronto).

Home is the damp, cold, beige little island known as Britain. I'm never sad to leave)

Not that I travel much, and rarely flying these days as I took a #NoFly pledge for my own transport, but given this is for work, is intercontinental, and is overall contributing towards the goal of more stable #EnergySystems and a #ReneableGrid.

So I've made my peace with the roughly 1.16tonnes of CO2 that the flights are going to add to the atmosphere (according to Google Flights estimator at least, better models may exist

How do #TravelBlog people usually do this?

Hashtag every post?
Leave everything all in one thread?
A thread per day/topic?
A mix of all of the above?

A massive thank you to my partner Emma for driving me to Manchester airport to start me off on this journey.

And a very un-thank-you to the snow which decided to dump itself all over the Peak District between Sheffield and Manchester yesterday. Did not need the extra stress of going an extra hour around via Leeds by motorways.

Made it through security with 3 Pis, an extra modbus energy meter (a bunch are already out there but we needed +1) cool little DIN mountable 4G routers and a bunch of odds and ends, and the only thing I forgot to separate from my bag was my (empty) metal water bottle so it got rescanned.

Manchester airport has water fountains/refill stations though so that's nice.

They're hidden away by the loos though and not signed.

Forever surprised that UK airports never seem to make announcements in multiple languages...

Even before the great brexitening.

Doubly surprises that Emirates don't at least make their own announcements in Arabic as it's their own airline...

Ok Emirates do make onboard announcements in Arabic and English.

I guess they don't get a say in the terminal.

Oh hey the advertisment boards in Dubai Airport are running on #RenewableEnergy ( #pv obviously)

Not the whole terminal, or the whole air port, or even the climate control...

Just the adverts...

Aim big...

Although in fairness most of the roof space of this terminal IS covered in #PV

But there are plenty of buildings which aren't (yet?) including both the other terminals (fancy curved roofs so probably never gonna change) and loads and loads and loads of flat roofed utility buildings.

And that's before you even consider using panels on a load of the scrub land and huge parking areas around the airport.