These are the last days of Common Sense and Whiskey here on WordPress. Common Sense and Whiskey has moved to Substack. All new content is now published there. I don’t want to lose you when I leave WordPress, so please take just a minute to click here and subscribe (subscriptions start at free) to CS&W on Substack.

In today’s new post on Substack, the history of pepper, the Amazon, heat waves, an Irish whodunnit, the future of prediction, more.

Plus, a photo quiz. Can you name this national capital?

Check out my weekend reading suggestions on S&W on Substack:

csandw.substack.com/p/weekend-reading-5…

Subscribers to the new CS&W get three columns a week: normally, a travel story every Tuesday, weekend reading recommendations on Fridays and a look at the week just past on Saturdays. Plus, all subscriptions, even the free ones, come with 50% off the pre-shipping price on every order from Earthphotos.com.

In the coming days I’ll be moving the web address, so that CommonSenseAndWhiskey.com will link to CS&W on Substack and not WordPress. Please make the move with me today. Thanks for reading Common Sense and Whiskey.