Not entirely unexpected, I don’t suppose, although our hosts were remarkably reluctant to confirm it. Mine was delicious, stuffed with some sort of plum or prune. And there was good rice too, mixed with steamed or boiled giant corn kernels. All in all considerably more exciting than the chifa I've...

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To Lima, via Amsterdam. A long, but deeply uneventful flight, which is as it should be. Just two complaints. First, my super-duper reclining seat had a broken footrest, which made it pretty uncomfortable when fully reclined. And second, with a rinky-dink little personal screen one has no way of know...

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Bad news on the gizmo front. First off, the noise canceling headphones I ordered almost two weeks ago, knowing that I had a 14 hour flight coming up, failed to arrive. I felt quite naked, when all around me were gizmo guys -- we recognize one another -- sporting the self-same noise canceling headpho...

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The Godfather horse head prop pillow (Luigi)

Not sure Apple would regard this bit of imitation as a sincere form of flattery. (JoMo)

P.s. 11 September 2016: So glad both of these links are still alive. I've had to discard a fair number of these early link posts because they're dead.

Well, not that rapturous. And not that deep either, just 34 metres. But pretty good nonetheless. Yesterday I went diving again for the first time in far too many years, and enjoyed myself immensely. I'd been meaning to get underwater again for ages, and then the opportunity came up, and I was glad I took it.

The trip was very well organized, and also very Italian.

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