If, like me, you live abroad and you have loved ones far, far away somewhere else, we will have something in common. Not that we are pessimists and expect bad things to happen. We’re just realistic. So we never switch off our mobile phones when we go to sleep. Wherever we are. In case a [...]
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Goodbye to all that
When the clock strikes twelve tomorrow night, we say goodbye not only to 2009 but to a decade. What are we going to call this decade of 2000 – 2009? The twenty hundreds? The two thousands? Don’t forget – this decade isn’t just a decade too – its the first decade of the new millennium. [...]
2009…the year that was
Time flies, as always. This is the time of year when everyone wonders…where did the year go? It never fails. It seems like only yesterday that we welcomed 2009 and soon its time to say goodbye. We were on board the Crystal Symphony on 1st January 2009 – cruising the Palmer Archipelago – a group [...]