So I went to a cafe in the duty free and bought a sandwich and coffee. Then at the very last moment, just before they began boarding, I noticed that the electronics store had a superb offer on hairdryers. (I need to replace the one in the apartment which Gouri destroyed.) So I bought one and got a nice spike buster for free.

So far so good. I did a lot of shopping. But not too much.

But just as I was about to enter the plane the woman at the gate told me that I had too many bags and had to put some along with the luggage. Nonsense. I argued for two minutes and made a lot of noise so that the airline fellows will try to avoid a scene and let me go. But then they said that I was free to go on another flight if I wanted to.

So I agreed and warned them that BMI’s London office would get a complaint from me. They asked me to pack my shopping into one or two bags and give it to them.

FAAAAAAAAACK. So I went back to the duty free to get a new bigger bag. I just grabbed a big bag, put everything inside it and gave it to the BMI staff.

Thankfully everything reached London safely. No chocolate has melted and no bottles have broken. Relieved.

I tried to remove the life jacket from the plane and bring it with me. As revenge. But it got stuck under the seat and wouldn’t come out.

Now for the workshop itself.

Diary I was genuinely impressed with it. Usually workshops are a complete pain in the ass. You get a lot of stationary and free food. But otherwise useless.

But this was very good. Dufresne flew down a banker called Andre Spelcik from Briar Atlantic who gave us a complete overview of the US housing market. There was a lot of data and analysis in his presentation. And some of it was very complicated. But truly the opportunities in the US are insane. Briar Atlantic made a profit—YES A PROFIT—of 1.3 billion dollars just on the US housing market last year. You should have seen my face when he said that. Then he explained how they made this money. They used something called a Credit Derivate Something where the underlying asset is housing loans. And then people buy and sell this and everyone makes money.

I won’t bore you with the details. But he said that there is still a LOT of money to be made. And Dufresne could help a lot of clients to invest in the market.