Old friends, new places

10900km later, the chance to see old friends again.... at a Mexican restaurant in Robertson Quay. Annalisa from Roberta's Imperial days, who was at our 35th, with her husband Massimo and a crowd of expats and localised friends. Academics and architects, marketing advisors and Milanesi. Talking into the night, eating the smallest Mexican meal most of us had ever seen. Seconds were ordered. They were as small as the first round, gastronomic satisfaction barely, but sociably, achieved. And Simon Chung....great to see him again, unchanged since the last time, maybe a bit rounder and wobblier at the edges. Middle age comes to us all. But still climbing. A hobby born in Oxfordshire, but being practiced in Asia. People travel, but so do their lives and pastimes.