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Pam was surprised how cold and frosty it was in winter : we think of Australia as a fiery desert island . To be more accurate , Ian ( the friend ) and son sailed while Ian ( your hero ) lay groaning on his bunk , suffering from a curious stomach ailment . We hope your New Year is happy and will continue to be so . We were enormously impressed : digital libraries are taken very seriously in India ( as they should be ) . No way , I 'm completely exhausted , the body complained . The jovial constable says the two Cup yachts are a bit bigger and faster than us ; we smile pleasantly , go about , smile pleasantly , and the nice policeman , just to be sure we had n't missed his joke , says again that some yachts are bigger and faster than us . We were hardly ever at home in San Francisco : sometimes we ate at Google , sometimes with friends , sometimes out . And what a wonderful course it turned out to be ! Lambs gambol happily until they reach a point one day when they look around and say " I 'm a sheep ! Now that you are completely stuffed there is more rice , this time with sloppy yogurt , for dessert . Between the five of them they could manage four recorders , three viols , a flute , a piano and a harpsichord : the combinations were many and varied . But staying was not really an option - - pretty soon it would be stinky and bustling , with insistent beggars and the inevitable " fixers " who greet you like best friends and want only to sort out your problems for you , whatever they may be ( for a fee ) . Finally , this was the year of the dishwasher disaster , but you do n't want to hear about that . But otherwise our little trip down memory lane was just the same , except that instead of killer whales we disturbed a huge ( 2-metre ) stingray that shot between us as we swam . We were staying in a residence at the Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris , a huge marble mansion allegedly modeled after Fontainebleau . It is quite stunning to hear her nonchalantly chatting away to the locals after only a year of immersion in French. The culmination was a work specially commissioned from Gareth Farr , one of New Zealand 's up-and-coming composers , a drummer and drag artist whose performance speciality is the Indonesian gamelon drums . She was invited back to the school to teach music one day a week . It was lovely to walk around Florence and feel its familiarity , even better to know that we were leaving this international tourist trap the next day for a month in Tuscany . Anna did n't even clap eyes on the boat for the first ten months ; however she has recently enjoyed a couple of day trips and is ready for more . To contemplate racing in such conditions these guys must be completely crazy ! After a few minutes we predicted that boredom would soon set in , but instead we were mesmerized and stayed for over two hours - - the only non-Indians in the audience .