Today marks the first day of Autumn. The weather has certainly started to cool. The cooler temperatures will be handy practice for our Christmas vacation in Russia. This week we booked an eight-day tour that will take us from St Petersburg and Moscow. I'm looking forward to one highlight already - a full day tour of Star City - home to the Russian manned space program. We're also booking ourselves on a special tour of the KGB headquarters. It's hard to believe that both venues were off limits to foreigners less than 20 years ago.
A Summer to remember
Yesterday the Met Office announced that we'd just completed the second hottest Summer on record. While July was the hottest (and sunniest) month ever, temperatures in August cooled rapidly preventing a new seasonal record. However, the difference in sunshine between these two months was the most dramatic on record, while the temperature difference was only beaten by that of 1737. Perhaps it's true, English weather really is unpredictable?
Going cold Turkey
Last weekend Kurdish terrorists bombed several cities in Turkey. The news unnerved many staff at work forcing me to cancel next week's management meeting in Istanbul. We're now looking to reschedule our meeting for mid-October, probably in Lisbon.
This will be my first trip to Portugal. In a ironic twist, I recall that my parents were in Portugal on September 11, 2001. Five years later, an act of terrorism results in me making own journey to the Iberian coast. Despite the latest incident, Garry and I still hope to visit Turkey for next year's ANZAC dawn service.
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