On Differences
April 23rd, 2009
“It’s too bright,” Sophie said. “The sun won’t set!” I thought we had some sleep masks from the flight over (when, on a four-fifths empty 777, we had a row each and those of us who weren’t so excited that we photographed Iran in nauseating detail could actually lie down), but by the time I got around to looking for them she was asleep. One of the things that struck me about living in Sydney was the length of the days. Being closer, much closer, to the equator than we are in the UK, the days
