To celebrate the festive season of 2012, I flew to a place I had never been before, and spent time with people whom I had never before known. The World and people are equally fascinating to me, and while I was nowhere near any close family members, all Europeans are the children of Charlemagne, and we are all related anyway, if you go back far enough.

In the Top End of Australia, with the climate and vegetation, and of course all the wildlife, I can easily imagine myself in a Primordial landscape and surrounded by ancient carnivorous Dinosaurs. Well in truth I didn’t have to imagine that very hard at all, because that was pretty much the case.