Hi there! I’m sat at the Bayview Chateau Tongariro looking at this view:

OK, so there are a couple of reasons why that’s not entirely true. . . First of all it’s cloudy and misty, so I can’t see the mountain at all. Also, it’s not currently erupting. At least, not as far as I can tell through the mist and fog.

Oh, I guess there’s a third reason: I am facing the wrong way. But with the cloud and fog it doesn’t really matter, and the desk was setup this way, so moving it around just to look at th...