Lost in translation

so is that buy one pair and get one half price or buy one shoe and get the other half price?

Desert sand

We have taken a southerly route to the Middle East this time, across Europe down what was the Yugoslavian coastline before cutting across the Med to Egypt, the photo above is the view as we crossed the Egyptian coast. The desert comes down to the sea but it is still clear enough to get a reasonable photograph. A short while later the sand in the atmosphere meant that the ground was no longer visible. It may sound obvious but sand gets everywhere in the desert, it does not just lie around it blows about and gets into every gap and makes washing cars a daily task or one you just don't bother with at all.

Transition

I love being at home and after all this time I am OK with being away, I do however have difficulty with the transitory state between the two. Its Sunday morning and I am at Heathrow airport having just boarded my flight to the Middle East, its a short trip I will be back home in two and a half days. My Saturday was fine but in the early evening I had to pack a bag and arrange a taxi for 0330 Sunday morning, this meant my head was slowly getting into away mode. This combined with the fact that the meeting I am attending is an important one on the future progress of the company meant that I was not as relaxed as I might have been. I am missing my youngest sons football and the family Sunday which is always depressing, travelling  at weekends is always worse. Once I get to the airport at the other end I will have fully transitioned to "away mode" and all will be fine again. When I get back on Tuesday its just for one night and I am away in Poland for two nights before getting back home about 11PM on Friday night to start the weekend.