Today’s travel highlights include drinking Indonesian civet coffee at Kopi Loewak Mataram and choreographed dancing to Carl Douglas’ “Kung Fu Fighting” with a group of Malaysian tourists at the Borobudur Buddhist Temple in Java (as one does).

Remember, not everyone has the same cultural background: Today, I explained that I was going on “sabbatical” to my Chinese grad student. Which, of course, required discussing the sabbath, and then the Bible, the Abrahamic religions, the book of Genesis, and the 10 commandments…

An unanticipated downside of large British electrical plugs is that a slug can crawl up inside and electrocute itself, as I have just learned from experience. Do not ask about the sizzling and crackling noise.

Am quite proud of myself for marking a bunch of undergraduate project reports from a campsite in Cornwall.