Sometimes bearing witness to a tiny instant of natural beauty or experiencing a moment of connection with nature a can uplift and rejuvenate a soul. Today we were lucky enough to bear a whole load of witnesses and have several moments of connection. The day started with breakfast. We decided to keep it light because we had lunch reservations. That did mean that I was left with the agonising choice of whether to have 2 pancakes with French toast or without. In th...

"Hate different or love different, but one must know different" Today began with a trip to purchase new sandals, as the Mrs' fell apart en route to breakfast. Breakfast in the hotel was the usual mixture of fruits, cereals, noodles, meat, roast, sushi, cantelope, rhino horn and almost anything else you could imagine. They also had yellow watermelon! It tasted like watermelon, had the texture of watermelon, but it was yellow. Truly something I had never tried be...

Unfortunately, none of the stores in the mall below the twin towers sold fish hooks in any sort of quantity that would be worthy of a record breaking attempt. I gesticulated to a guy, who misunderstood and ended up bringing me what appeared to be two genetically enhanced prawns who had been allowed to swim in steroids and growth hormone solution since their birth (or hatching, whatever prawns do to enter this world). I have attached the picture of the creatures f...

Every person is made differently. Different people handle pressure in different ways. It would appear that my cells react in a most aeriform manner. Indeed, I tried to no aviail to google what the pressure changes in an aircraft cabin were, but ended up thoroughly confused. What I can be sure of is that the climate is that much warmer as a result of the pervasion of effluvium that mysteriously clouded my seating area regularly. Now, I did promise a review of th...