Last week, following visits to Brussels and Madrid, I had a six-hour round trip to Bristol to film a 30-second soundbite. (The actual recording took about ten minutes.)
Pah! My UK record is a ten-hour round trip to record a similar bite-sized interview for a local TV programme.
After travelling from Cambridgeshire to London I caught a train from Paddington and arrived in Plymouth shortly after lunch. I took a taxi to the pub where the programme was being filmed, hung around for an hour or so, recorded my piece, got a taxi back to the station, and arrived home via London some five hours later.
In the same vein, my all-time record is the time it took to fly to Dublin, stay overnight and fly home for what turned out to be a 20-second comment on Sky News.
For the remainder of this week I shall be in Scotland, but not on business. After all that travelling, I need a little rest and recuperation.
Feel free to talk among yourselves.