Feb202009
My Trip To SkyKitchen (part one)
Im writing this from the desk of my swanky 5 star hotel room. Ive only just arrived here in Austria for what has to be one of the most exciting nights of my life.
Ive travelled up and down the country doing DJ sets before but this is the first time I have been flown to another internatinal city to go and do my thing.
I had hoped to write a blog post at Heathrow airport but their wifi set up didnt make sense to me. I had to buy minutes with one of the wifi providers and have may wifi login details emailed to me. How can I make a payment over an unsecured connection only to have my login stored in my email inbox which I could not yet access? Madness…
One of the most amusing things I saw at Heathrow were the pilots swaggering back and forth in their full uniform with colour co-ordinated air hostess totty in tow. I swear they were looping the departures lounge in order to get attention. Either that or they were lost. I really hoped that they were not my pilots.
The flight over here was fairly quick and smooth - it only took two hours. I had a chauffer waiting for me when I got to Vienna who took me straight to the hotel. I was able to practise some of my GCSE German on him which suprised even me as it all came flooding back. Luckily the weather was rubbish and so we had something to talk about.
The people here seem nice and friendly and do appreciate even a slight effort to chat in their language. What I did find strange at one point was being on the other end of a conversation where I am the one being talked loudly and slowly to, along with a flurry of international hand gestures to aid the translation. I had always thought that was the British way to speak fluent foreign … 
I have had a brief look around the city where I am staying - brief only because of the bad weather here. Its a horrible grey sleet mist that has engulfed Vienna tonight and being from England that usually would have made me feel more at home. But back home it was just starting to get warmer. Is Vienna a typically snowy city? I have no idea.
My brief trip took me past a couple of familiar sights, two of which being a Subway sandwich bar and a Casino. When I saw those I knew I would be ok.
I really do not want to risk getting a cold tonight so I have made it back to the warm sanctuary of my hotel room, with my footlong BMT and am finishing off this blog post between bites.
Im on in three hours and I am very excited. Im also debating whether to grab a couple of hours sleep before I head out but I don’t want to risk missing my alarm.
Either way, dont forget to check out my set LIVE from the venue *if* I can get my internet access working. From about midnight tonight GMT take a trip to paulvelocity.co.uk/live and you might (or might not) see my DJ set being streamed across the internet. Either way I will record as much of the event as I can and upload it along with photos as soon as I can.
My next blog post will be after the event, so keep it locked - see you on the other side!
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