Happy mid-week! As I'm blogging this entry, it dawned upon me that it will be the boss's last day in the office tomorrow, as he will be heading back to LDN (after staying in Asia for 2 years) to take up an extended role. Leaving drinks tml night and we planned to get him drunk, so he can sleep his way through his flight on Friday morning, lol! Hopefully, I won't have to nurse another hangover on Friday.
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We travelled to Cambridge, around 80km north of LDN, for a 3D2N sales conference.
I love being in the countryside, away from the tall buildings and be closer to nature. This is something that you can't experience in Singapore :(
We checked into a nice boutique hotel, The Varsity Hotel & Spa, located on the edge of the picturesque River Cam in the heart of Cambridge. Old school keys for the room :)
When I entered the room, I was delighted to see the old English cottage charm that the hotel has retained, especially love the wall-paper!
They even have a chest of drawers available for you to put your clothes. I can totally imagine myself staying here for a very long time.
Comes equipped with coffee & tea.
Our T-shirt & Welcome note placed in each room.
The view from my window ... I'm loving this place already :)
They even provide complimentary walking tours every Saturday at 2pm, lead by one of their experienced guides, taking guests on a tour of the historic sites of central Cambridge. So, take advantage of this if you're heading for a trip there!
The Varsity Hotel & SpaThompson's Lane (Off Bridge Street)Cambridge CB5 8AQUnited KingdomTel:+44 0 1223 30 60 30Email: info@thevarsityhotel.co.uk
A change of clothes, before heading downstairs for buffet lunch.
Lunch consisted of sandwiches, wraps, salads and whats-not. The raspberry cheesecake dessert certainly tops my list of must-have desserts!
After a hearty lunch, we attended the first part of the conference ~ where we reviewed on our performance from the past year and the objective for the year ahead, as well as the product road-map. It was certainly good exposure for all of us, as we get first-hand information from the relevant department heads, allowing us to brainstorm on how we can introduce all these new functionalities to our clients.
We had a private room @ St John's College, but before that, drinks/catch up session at the reception area. When it was time for dinner, we were ushered into the room & boy, it felt like having dinner @ Hogwats! 4 rows of table were placed horizontally with a long table that joined all the tables at the end. The bosses sat at the end, just like how the head-masters sat in the movie :)
I found my place-card at the 1st table, but we didn't have a table tagged to the table, lol! Each table consisted of a good mixture of people from the 3 teams (AM, Product & Sales) across the different offices, so as to interact better with one another.
Graduation hats, which we all had to wear :)
Time to start off the 3-course meal that was prepared for us.
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