Shooting footage and the bandits on the beach.

They offered fake watches, ice cream, massage and floating beds.

Sun beating down on oiled backs, tortoises offering reservations and advice.

No ordinary tour, an unusual trip.

Voyages away from home, beyond the well known.

Discovering alpha, beta and delta….we missed nothing.

….

Where the flowers drive the trees wild.

Two ponies and a rabbit, two ideas and a tablet.

The game started before we joined the team.

The lines drawn on ancient maps defined the powers each throne could summon.

When you sing in the bathroom make sure the emperor does not hear

There is a new place for lunch.

Bon appetit.

Safely leaping from building to mountain top and planet to planet, it was time to set out to sea.

Never one to shrug off an adventure, we never learnt the meaning of debenture.

Scarves flying in the violent wind and warmed by a violet sun, warriors were created and all slaves freed at last.

Equal by choosing and nothing losing, the victory of silent thoughts enthusiastically shared was palatable and some said, palpable.

Epic dreams and legendary realities. Formed, and in the making, they were both.

…

So close were the rings.

They clashed, clinked and rattled when they shook hands with welcome strangers.

This wealth of jewelry and decor, trims and trusses were insidious pleasantries of the gentle folk living behind the walls.

Now, things are different.

How are they different?

Who knows…we don’t.

We just feel it.

And that, said the jester to the inventor, is all that matters.

There were smiles all round.

…

Twisting the wires improved reception of the weak radio signal.

If you have a mobile phone you will not remember, or will soon forget, the idea that you might turn a radio station receiver around and suddenly hear your favorite music clearly without crackles, pops and whistles. If this is not familiar, go and see a really old movie – they might show you what radio was like in what was called its “Golden Age”.

But it is worth understanding how new the presumption is of “total reliability” of electrical appliances and equipment.

Things simply “work”. Now.

…