Sunday, February 13/2011

Online booking for our trip to Portugal. Takes a few tries as I eventually figure out I'm trying to use my UK debit card with a room-booking account in J's name. So eventually I create an account in my name and it all works. So now airfare, with EasyJet, studio in Albufeira and transfers in one fell swoop.

Idly google Jaworski and Sioux Lookout and find the obvious and expected and the totally unexpected - a reference in Dave Barr's autobiography One Lucky Canuck. Dave and his wife Irene were part of the 12 person group we went with to China in 1990. It must be only a small section of his book - and there are bits missing from the google online posting - but it's still pretty exciting. Dave had obviously made detailed notes and done background research as well. We'll have to get a copy and then we'll have a wonderful account of the China trip - from before the days when we kept a journal.

According to the evening news there has been an earthquake south of Limassol. Three point something. No damage and we didn't feel it here. We did feel one back about Christmas. Went on for 30 seconds or so, but no news report that we noticed.