As usual, this August I will be wending my way to Oz as I have done for many years now to spend a month with my son. On the way, sipping my Singapore Sling and dabbling at some delicacy I shall fly over Ukraine, the Crimea, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan and Pakistan in complete safety. It has always seemed surreal to me especially flying over Afghanistan where we fly directly over Kabul that down there my fellow countrymen are fighting and dying. I always raise my glass as we enter the border of Afghanistan to the servicemen who are seven miles below me.
It's a strange world.