2-3 minute read. Note: We are currently in Mississippi, USA. // One baby alligator came to the boat launch to see us off. Its little grey-brown body hung delicately in the water and it swivelled around to look at each boat, one by one. The day was warm and the sky cloud-free, the river still and brilliant, like Tiffany glass that had been smeared with oil and reverently scattered to reflect the day. As our school of boats motored out to the lake, beyond the noise ordinance bo

In 2017, we visited the UK, the US, Denmark, Norway, Thailand, Japan, India and Hong Kong. Boy did we accomplish a lot. Such as... In 2017, we realised that our favourite restaurants in Tokyo were Chinese or Korean as shown to us by my sister and brother-in-law, and many of our favourite teas were oolongs (we also learned their correct name is wulong). For the sake of research, we taste-tested sakes at a tiny festival in northern Japan, including sparkling sake, and ate a sta

Gallery 7: Photographs from our trip Minnesota, USA 2017 Earlier this year as a birthday present to both of us my parents-in-law very kindly sent us to Minnesota to visit Elizabeth’s oldest friend near Fariboult (outside Minneapolis-St. Pauls), where she lives with her husband and son and a small menagerie. Our friends were immensely generous too with their planning and time they spent with us, touring us around MN in the middle of their busy lives. This included my first vis

Gallery 5: Photographs from our trips to New York City in January and March 2017. Apologies for last week's email that contained no photographs nor links! A pre-scheduled post went awry... So, in January, we were on our way to visit my wife's sister and family near New York city and then on to Vermont to see her parents, so we thought we should make use of our landing and departing days in New York. We stayed in Brooklyn on the way in, and then Queens on the way out utilising