Confessions of an IT girl

Ellen Gerstein is director of marketing at a publishing house where she works on books about technology. In this post she describes her trip to Malta to attend her company’s EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) sales meeting:

..Anyhow, after claiming my luggage, I stumbled through the airport looking for somewhere to wait out my 6 hours until my flight to Malta. I had no boarding pass, and wasn’t due to get one until 2 hours before the Malta flight was due to leave. I found a quiet spot and had a cappuccino and read a paper. Then, I joined the line to check in for Malta. It was Fellini-eqse, populated by a pack of nuns, 5 Italian boys who could have doubled for the Jonus Brothers, and their beleaguered moms. Air Malta ended up taking off an hour late, but that’s the only sleep I got that way, so the delay was fine.

The hotel is quite lovely. Even though I will not see much of it, the beach is right outside the hotel. Rocky, but picturesque. Tonight we had dinner outdoors in a fortress in Valetta. It was fun - fun to be outside, fun to be with good people, and fun to be somewhere other than my little silo in Hoboken. Looking forward to more of the same over the next few days...