We were caving in the Dordogne for New Year. There were donkeys. It rained. Everyone on the trip was living in one shared house, eating and drinking a lot.
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We sneaked off for a dive holiday in the Red Sea at three days notice as the prices were dropping.
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Only three dives a day, but otherwise lovely. This is a squirrel fish.
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We were for several days at The Brother's islands out in the middle of the sea. There is a tall iron lighthouse. The four Egyptians who live there keep many cats, so it's no use for birds.
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My cheap underwater camera box worked well, contrary to expectations. Not that I take much notice of photographic equipment nerds. It's enough to make me happy.
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The weather had gone bad. After an epic six-hour thrash to the coast during which time people who claimed never to get sea-sick got ill, and most of us spent the day wishing we were dead, there was time for only one more dive. I made a movie of a free-swimming eel.
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Later that month I caught a bus to Cologne to see my dad who was doing mathematics. This is its famous cathedral in which are stored the stolen bones of the Three Kings, a relic that Christians no longer feel confident about enough to go on pilgrimages to.
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