Notes to self

1) Write blog entries, and/or put up photos, about:

• The Halloween Party we organised at the Funky Art Cafe - watermelon carving, an altar de los muertos, fireworks and a giant fish
• Getting to know the Levitt-Campbell family: a little geeky, a little lefty, a little unconventional, a little Jewish: we like them a lot
• Drifting on the Kerala back-waters: next time we'll do this for a week, not 24 hours
• Rocio y Carlos, de Yucatan, Mexico, y de Madrid: nuevos amigos muy simpaticos
• The Tamil temple town of Madurai: amazing Dravidian temples; amazingly persistent tailors; amazingly friendly and relaxed traders in the flower and vegetable markets; amazing numbers of cows wandering the streets
• What a hopeful sign it is that nearly half the terrified, misinformed, bamboozled and isolated voters of the USA still dare to vote against the Emperor's policies (even though it would have been a great cause for celebration for a while if Kerry had got to be Emperor instead)

2) Catch up with emails to everyone, once we reach Bangalore for Diwali, if not before

- Mark