If you recall dear readers, at the end of last week a made this little quip about my somewhat hectic travel plans

(sound of mobile phone ringing): "Is that Mr Free Market? Colonel Trautman here ..."

which over the last 3 weeks have basically included a week across Europe, a week in Singapore & a week in the Middle East. Well, I started today with the prospect of ten clear days in Hong Kong ahead of me. That was at about 0830. By lunchtime, that plan had been well & truly scraped as guess who was standing in my office ???? Yep, you guessed right – tomorrow morning its time to get back on that plane again