- Crossing the Minch for the first time.
- Watching a ship going through the Panama Canal.
- Shaking hands with Samuel Escobar in the queue for breakfast at a conference.
- Listening to a US man telling me about his legal marihuana-growing business, over lunch in my church in Colombia.
- Finding a young woman unconscious on the pavement on my way to work.
- Discovering Romans 5:17.
- Spotting a scorpion crawling out of my flatmate’s bedroom.
- Witnessing two American (I mean US) men brawling on a flight in Colombia. The Colombians booed and jeered and the woman beside me said, “Gringo go home”. One brave Colombian stood between them.
- Seeing the oldest evidence of Christianity in Scotland. (The Latinus Stone, from ca. 450AD).
- A frosty day out in Ulm, Germany, with an old friend.



