I drag my new microscope back to Gozo, and then I have to go back to work.

The thing that I'll really "miss" in San Francisco, will be the crab!
The "Crab restaurant" at Pier 40 has photos of Tony Bennett, Ava Gardner, Frank Sinatra etc - a whole host of 40-60's Hollywood stars.
But it also had about twenty ways of serving these giant crabs!

We'll be back again in August '09

This is my new microscope that I had sent to the Radisson at Fisherman's wharf in SFO all the way from Amscope in Los Angeles. It has an outlet for the camera-computer linkage, and is 2-180X with all kinds of accessories for looking at my gems, fossils and coins.

I dragged it back to Gozo in a massive aluminium 'brief' case.
Kids and visitors love it.



You are really back in Gozo when you are back in the Gleneagles - fisherman's bar - bastardos & mafiosi. George & mate feature here.











Andrew - keeping his own peace.



We've been through a lot of wine & food together - my mate Revel with one of his fancy Fleet Street waistcoats!

Denise discovered some of the leather gear from Castro, and was taken with it.

Yes, she has a bikini on as she has come to my place to try out the new spa!

Honest!

Denise came out with Jean and myself to meet Julian at one of many dinner parties. His wife, Robin, plus Revel and Paula are out of picture.

The "Demi-Monde" are always around in Gozo : here's Revel affecting boredom, ennui, etc or is it just Chardonnay?

One of the rare occasions went out with my brother Chris and his wife Sue, at a jolly function at the Grand in Gozo.

Old men - young women! I should be arrested! Ah the lovely Natasha loves to dance!

The good life draws to a close - we'll be packing soon.

Unhand me sir - and go to work!

Only one day back in Chad, and I encountered this fellow : I was naked in my bathroom and he was wizzing around at 30mph. I gassed it - and when we reconstituted the golf-ball like corpse it came out to be about 4" long - a baby camel spider - and we don't know where mum is!
This is Regis squinting at me - as usual. He is the French Ops Geologist - and my boss & mate. A good but strange fellow, who loves wine like me!

Holger is heading for a 10 minute smoke break. When he shakes your hand - that's what you think it is - a break. What a grip!!

Jake was being transferred back to Houston afetr about 4 years here. And somebody gave him an African night-dress and told him it suited him. Shoukat is admiring the whole get-up.

Regis is having a Frenchman's afternoon mango-break with Christian.

Sam Sutin went off to work on another project in XOM - which was a relief as he was always breaking things and stealing sweets form my office. Then he ended up back on the Chad project - but from a Houston armchair + married. How some people do it?!?

Jake's still in his payjamas. Here also is Andy Zitterkopf - coin+note collector, gambler and investment guru. Now he's left XOM for Hess - I wish him luck - he was a pretty good for a drilling engineer.

Here's my good buddy & boss Sonny - erudite and lucid - well that's what he tells me!

But there are some very suspicious characters about. Possibly some hedge-fund managers or Wall St evacuees are hiding in Kome? Good free food - plenty of entertainment etc!?