On This Day
On This Day in 2009: "...is experiencing the Belfast Effect* - after two weeks in West Africa, south Morocco seems developed, orderly and, dare I say, clean"
On This Day in 2011: "Pretty much resigned myself to being stuck in Addis for a week - now I just need to find a hotel room with a desk and a better view, and start working on my memoirs."
On This Day in 2013: "It's a sad sad sad day - just picked up my first new passport in 10 years, which means the 100-page one I spent the past decade filling up is no longer valid. On the bright side, I'm about to spend the six hours at the biggest wine festival in Slovenia drowning my sorrows....."
On This Day in 2014: "The sign didn't say anything about taking photos while driving......."
On This Day in 2016: "And the sun and 21° weather come back to Beirut just in time for (Orthodox) Christmas, شكرا......"
*The Belfast Effect was serendipitously discovered whilst doing completely unrelated field work in Northern Ireland during university, and is the condition whereby being deprived of something for an extended period of time (in this case, attractive people) necessarily lowers one's standards....
