Clouds of white smoke sat still, as though frozen on the tops of chimneys. Shivering, but not feeling the cold, I stood by the front window of Campbell's Drug Store, just down the street from Drury's Meat Market, my parents shop. An illuminated clock with the smiling Alka Seltzer kid lit the back wall of the pharmacy; a blue Royal Bank calendar hung beneath it. I looked at the watch my mother had just given me for my fourteenth birthday. Both time-pieces ...

We left Bangkok around ten in the morning. It was a four something hour flight to Beijing, where we waited three hours before flying direct to Toronto. For the record only.

Hi M & M,We weren't able to send the photos to you via email so have created a travelpod entry. Let us know once you have seen the photos and we will delete the entry.

After India.

 Elenka and I went to India without any real plan, other than diving and dentistry. We really should have remembered that Goa is not the place to visit early on. When you get there you don't want leave. The beach at Benaulim is magnificent. Europeans come here year-after-year for vacation. For them it's a relatively short trip. Many of them have never seen any other part of India.There probably is good Indian food in Goa. But you'd have to travel far...