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) One memorable morning he saw the dawn come up over the Pacific while listening to Orff 's Carmina Burana at full volume on his portable CD player . After one of those trips from hell where you find yourself stranded in the US , wearing only shorts , T-shirt and sandals , carrying only a computer ( no toothbrush , sweater , or clean undies ) , at an airport thousands of miles from anywhere on your itinerary , getting to a hotel at 1 AM ( after a long argy-bargy with airline officials ) and being collected from it at 4 AM , with a dinner voucher and a breakfast voucher ( only to be used on that day , at that hotel ) , he eventually arrived at Calgary and set off in search of Anna . We saw the gigantic Kauri , largest trees in the world and a thousand years old . However , by morning said appendix had returned to hibernation ( though it did re-awaken a few times during the year at equally inopportune moments ) . Also , as it was " so close " she included a short trip to the south of France to visit her brother Steve who moved his family there in January to run a small village pub . Even more awesome was a vast ketch we saw the same day that must have been twice as big , 120 feet maybe . After a couple of hours sleep , a shower ( no shortage of hot water , it turned out ) , and brunch ( curry of course ) , we found a wonderful ( oops ! With half a million other people we visited the Castro district that evening , and saw the most incredible exhibitions , including acres of exposed flesh of all possible genders . She 's been there for nearly a year and a half , surely a record for stability . One boy put his fist through our garage wall ( no , not brick , and easy enough to fix ) : interestingly , he is an accomplished violin player who was going through serious depression following the theft of his rare , exquisite , and extremely expensive violin .