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As you’d expect, there are copious amounts of liquid refreshment available during SIBOS.  Many of the booths have champagne and wine, and then at around 5ish the general masses enjoy cocktails across the exhibition floor. This then leads into the evening’s frivolities and I enjoyed a couple of parties last night … after all, just…

After a few cups of tea in the harbour … or I threw mine in there as American tea is never quite English breakfast … I wandered back to the BECC (Becks: there he is again, ah no he isn’t, it’s the Boston Conference and Exhibition Centre, the BCEC) for more on new thinking for…

After a few cups of tea in the harbour … or I threw mine in there as American tea is never quite English breakfast … I wandered back to the BECC (Becks: there he is again, ah no he isn’t, it’s the Boston Conference and Exhibition Centre, the BCEC) for more on new thinking for…

Having attended the funds management session, I can now see why I got out of insurance twenty years ago.  I mean, it may be interesting for the guys involved but watching this session was a little bit slow.    The main outcome of the discussion for me was how firms had moved away from manufacturing…

I take the last flight out of Heathrow to Si-Boston last night and am amazed to find myself being brushed aside at the security gates by some hulking brute of a figure.  As I turn to raise myself up to my full five feet nine inches of bristling quivering wreck, I realise the incredible hulk…

I take the last flight out of Heathrow to Si-Boston last night and am amazed to find myself being brushed aside at the security gates by some hulking brute of a figure.  As I turn to raise myself up to my full five feet nine inches of bristling quivering wreck, I realise the incredible hulk…

I take the last flight out of Heathrow to Si-Boston last night and am amazed to find myself being brushed aside at the security gates by some hulking brute of a figure.  As I turn to raise myself up to my full five feet nine inches of bristling quivering wreck, I realise the incredible hulk…

I take the last flight out of Heathrow to Si-Boston last night and am amazed to find myself being brushed aside at the security gates by some hulking brute of a figure.  As I turn to raise myself up to my full five feet nine inches of bristling quivering wreck, I realise the incredible hulk…

Europe’s greatest export to promote the art of strong drinking opens next week in one of America’s oldest cities, Boston.  SIBOS, an acronym for Standing In Buckets Of Slop, was created by the Belgians as a way to promote wine and beer drinking and is normally held in the Autumn to pre-empt Germany’s October Beerfest…

Europe’s greatest export to promote the art of strong drinking opens next week in one of America’s oldest cities, Boston.  SIBOS, an acronym for Standing In Buckets Of Slop, was created by the Belgians as a way to promote wine and beer drinking and is normally held in the Autumn to pre-empt Germany’s October Beerfest…