Events

Where does the clock strike midnight first on the planet?… …Or in fact any minute, or hour, or day, or a New Year, or whatever other unit of time: where, in time, on this orb of ours, does it comes first? Well, not a lot of people know this but it is… on Kiritimati, aka […]

One of the most pressing problems facing the world today is global warming. Its effects can be witnessed all over the globe – from the Americas to… Zambia. Whether man-made pollution has much of an overall effect on specifically global warming is open to question, and question that postulate I did some months back (but […]

And the first place in yesterday’s post – the tropical one with the novel Christmas trees – is (as title of this blogpost has somewhat given away)… …Maldives! Did you guess right? Or did you spot the clue in the very last of the tropical snaps – Devarana – a nice spa on one of […]

Welcome back folks! Ok, 2020-review: done. Next up, my first 2021 blogpost proper – on how we met the New Year. And we happened to have met it in an exotic location somewhere far away – hurray! (Who’d have thought it? Actually – me! It’s 2021 already!) The suitcases (more than usual) were all packed, […]

Phew. Thank goodness it’s over. The ghastliest year known to most of us ever – finally done, dusted, finito, fertig. Let’s just hope, as many folks are repeating: ‘2021 will be better; it can’t be worse, surely?!’ For a good 10 months of last year practically the whole world was in a permanent state of […]

First, a toast! Here’s to… successful adaptation throughout last year, and to everyone having… a good sense of smell this year! Hurray! Sure, the New Year celebrations were weeks ago. But there’s still my traditional yearly review to complete! Well here it is finally – better late than never. And the first thing I can […]