The United States presidential elections have become a circus. The first debate in Atlanta Georgia I found hard to watch it was painful affair. Must admit I kept thinking are these two men the best candidates for the president of…
Maybe like me you’ve thought “what is the purpose of life?” Is there a purpose to it fundamentally? Are we here just to create more life? Or are we here to become observers of life. Do other species of life on…
I returned to Cyprus after 5 week stint in the U.K. A distant friend of the family asked me if I’d be interested in project with Fibre Laser Welding machine manufactured in China. Initially I turned him down, why I…
Why I chose Stella Polaris for long distance sailing, especially solo. On the morning of January 6 1997, a story was breaking about two yachts that had overturned in the Southern Ocean while competing in the Vendee Globe solo round-the-world…
In the democratic world people who oppose the government or political parties are called in the U.K. the opposition. Certainly not given the title of dissident. However the opposite is true in totalitarian regimes such as the Russian Federation. Opposition politicians…
The last number of my blog posts the topics seems to relate to a dark side of human nature. As I get older, I’m now aged 72, not that I feel physically my age. But when I look in the mirror…
I decided to visit a new friend I had met online. My friend lives in the south western part of Ukraine on the Dnipro river. Where she lives there are a large number of metallurgical steel works on the banks…
Civilisation as we so call it? I believe started in the west in the ancient polis or city state of Athens in Greece. Now if there one place I would recommend visiting is metropolis of Athens the capital of Greece.…