Rhonda Bracey: At Random

I went to Sydney last week to speak at a conference. The conference was held at the Sydney Hilton and that’s where the organisers had booked me for three nights. I was on the 38th floor (an Executive room floor, which meant I had to their excellent ‘Executive Lounge’), and while the room was very nice and the hotel staff were great, I am glad that my usual life is spent at ground level looking out onto greenery and water in the distance. I don’t think I could live that high up, being overlooked by windows in other buildings.

As an aside, what’s with the ‘environmental’ cards asking guests to leave towels etc. hanging up that they don’t want laundered, yet when you do so for three days straight, the housekeeping staff change them every day anyway? They didn’t change my sheets, so that was something, I guess.