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Have you ever flown long-haul?

Yes, I’ve flown to Hong Kong. I was flying from Dublin, but I had a stock-, a stopover in Stockholm.

But still, Stockholm to Hong Kong I think was thirteen hours. So quite long.

How was the flight?

It was OK. But it was, it was very long, and, er, can get a bit tiring I think, just sitting down and wondering when you’re going to land.

But I watched films on the plane to distract myself and fell asleep.

I like to read. I’m a slow reader, but I love reading, so I like to read, besides everything about everything, everybody, every subject. I like biographies, and, and I like, true testimonies, and, it varies, I like poetry a lot, and very occasional fiction, which I know is a challenge to write well.

Do you prefer reading in print or online?

Rafael I still prefer to read in print, but online saves time.

I lived in Japan, um, I lived in Japan and every year, Japan has a typhoon season.

And it was quite soon into my stay there that we had several typhoons, one after the other. And it was quite extreme.

What happened?

We had, we were all told to stay indoors. They were very used to it, so they had drills.

And it did cause some damage in the town, I think like broken roofs and things like that. But they did deal with it very well.

Yeah, I guess waterskiing is the most dangerous sport I’ve done.

Did you enjoy it?

I did, but mostly because I just didn’t realize that you can die from it.

So I went really, I went really, really quickly and was like, this is great.

And then afterwards my sister told me about a relative of ours who like, broke their leg from waterskiing. So...but it’s fine, yeah.