Let's see. My last post was a month ago. Since then I tried writing something about our two weeks in Berlin but got bogged down so I'm moving on. After Germany, we spent a very cold week in very expensive Copenhagen then stayed two weeks in Egypt. Like Berlin, it was a shock and overload but of a different order. Since childhood, I've been fascinated by the mystery of Egypt, its pyramids, mummies, camels and cats. Being there only deepened the mystery. I also tasted Egypt's bitters. Maybe more about that later. Maybe more about Berlin later. This post is just an ice breaker because I backed myself into a corner trying to write about Germany and stopped posting altogether.
We are currently in Cape Town, South Africa and today we're going out with the hope of seeing some whales and penguins. Tomorrow, we'll try to catch up with a few of the native baboons that live here. If we do see any, I'll try to avoid their tricky ways. Seeing as monkeys manage to snatch things from my hands, I'm sure I'm no match for baboons. Also, haven't seen much of the night sky yet but I hope to get a good look at it before we leave this continent. Being that we're now (finally) in the Southern Hemisphere and a good distance from the equator, there should be constellations I've never seen before.
Language itself is a barrier.
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Never thought of it quite that way--we here up in the northern hemisphere are all under the same sky, if not at the same exact time, but ... the southern hemisphere--that's another matter altogether. How cool.
Please verify the water swirls down the drain the other direction.
Why do we always seem to think that, of course, we are smarter than other primates, when that is demonstrably not the case? I mean, there's book smart, and street smart, but it is perhaps telling that we have no word for jungle smart.
Safe travels. Time for my walk...
Sorry. The sink here isn't the best for ascertaining which way water wants to swirl in the Southern Hemisphere. South Africa is experiencing a major drought right now so I only did a quick test but the direction of the swirl seems to depend on where the faucet points. I'll keep checking.
PS. In case you're wondering why I don't just go flush a toilet for the answer, toilets here don't swirl. Certainly the swirling American toilet would settle the question in one flush but here the water drops straight down from the top, no swirl.
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