Musings on Life in Hong Kong

There are so many interesting places in Greece it is hard to say which is my favourite.   But Delphi must be one of them.   I have long hear...

I made a number of interesting friends at Manchester Museum earlier in July.   Other than the red-eyed leaf frog from Costa Rica that I post...

Knossos on the island of Crete is even older than Mycenae.   This was the centre of the Minoan civilisation, widely considered the oldest an...

I first heard about the Lions’ Gate at Mycenae in an Art History course in the 1970s. Finally, I am here.   The city was said to be ...

This could be the high point of my trip to Greece.   Today we went to Olympia, the site of the original Olympic Games ~2,700 years ago.   An...

I moved out of my office which I have occupied for 22 years. Because I have retired from the Department of Computing to work at the Office o...

At the Manchester Museum, we met Dr. Andrew Gray, an expert on frogs, and other amphibians.   He showed us a sleeping frog, which, from a di...