[morini]

Cant see you doing much travelling this year M with the way things are going (unless you had planned a visit to the Arctic lol), I was on the blower to my old boss in Spain last night who was telling me in his opinion things are much worse (in Spain anyway) than what has been reported thus far, he is a pretty switched on guy with a lot of contacts in various governments, he has 9 team members currently in isolation all testing positive in the eastern Spain division where I previously worked....thats 20% of his workforce in that area alone, he also said the Italian, French & American depts have all been stood down as have some of the middle east guys due to positive testing.

Yeah I know, the timing is ironically bad as I really was planning to finish this contract last September. I don't like to extend any contract beyond two years as you can't pay expenses through your own company after 24 months so it normally isn't financially a good idea. Plus the traveling on this one has been a complete bitch - I'll never take a contract that involves the M25 again! The client was in the middle of a tricky migration when I was due to finish last year and I felt bad about leaving them in the lurch, even though they knew I really didn't want to extend. Anyway, I extended for another 6 months to see them through the transition (made them hike my rate to compensate for tax hit I took on expenses though) so I'll be free and clear at the end of March.

Bloody sods law, will have time on my hands and we were planning to do a few road trips this year. Kick back and tour around bits of Europe we haven't been to was the general idea, but that looks like that idea is out of the window now.