A Very Nestorian Christmas
I'm new to Nestoria, as are you dear Australian blog readers, so I thought you might like to see some of the folks behind the site in the digitalised flesh at the annual team trip to Blibao. As Ed Freyfogle so rightly said on the UK Blog: “All work and no play makes for a very dull vertical search engine indeed.”, so every year at Christmas the team heads out to northern Spain to celebrate and brainstorm in a different environment.
The usual order of events includes body boarding in the frigid December waters of a European sea, but this year that bracing joy was replaced by something a lot more of us would consider enjoyable: a bang up Basque meal cooked by the team under the careful supervision of an experienced chef at a traditional gastronomic society.
With different teams in charge of putting together different courses there was always going to be a competitive edge to the event – the Nestorians are programmed to please – but it was hard to think of there being any losers considering everyone got to sit down to the feast in the end, in the company of some local partners who deserved to be thanked for their support after a tough year for real estate businesses.
Hope your own Christmas meal was as enjoyable.
