You sound like you have done some interesting work. You hint from time to time at things you were up to, but some of the places you speak of had some pretty bad stuff going on.
[doublepost=1456959368][/doublepost]I am trying to work out how i can clear my diary to be able to go...
Yes, but - for the most part - I tend to be sent in after conflicts have ended, as the political side. However, I spent over two years in Georgia and was asked to deploy immediately after (as in a matter of a few weeks after) their silly conflict (cannot really dignify it with the noun 'war') with Russia.
A more recent posting was somewhat - more - ah, challenging. The sort of challenging that brought to mind images of Saigon 1975, - if things had gone badly - which was why I decided not to bring the Leica (which I had bought by then) with me. I would not have been happy if I had to leave it - and some of its lovely lenses - behind if we needed to depart in a hurry.
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You sound like you have done some interesting work. You hint from time to time at things you were up to, but some of the places you speak of had some pretty bad stuff going on.
[doublepost=1456959368][/doublepost]I am trying to work out how i can clear my diary to be able to go...
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Which fountain oen do you use? I have a couple on the go right now. A MontBlanc Grande Meisterstuck, a Lamy Studio and a Jinhao 159 which cost £7 on amazon! Great writer. I am enjoying turquoise ink currently.
These days, I use Mont Blancs, but I have written exclusively with fountain pens since I was at school. Like Leica, I came to them late, and love them, ergonomic, beautifully balanced in the hand and so on.
Over the years, I tried a number of pens; Parker are too large, Cross I quite liked, and Waterman looked terrific (I bought a lovely pen and fountain pen set in Heathrow well over a decade ago en route to Croatia for an election) but were not as comfortable to write with as they should have been.
More recently, I have had a Caran d'Ache, which I really liked, and then, several years ago, I inherited a battered Mont Blanc from an aunt who had died and couldn't believe how good it was, how comfortable and balanced it was.
So, these days, I write with Mont Blanc Meisterstucks, preferably the 144, or 145 size.
Actually, I wrote so much with one when last abroad for months on end that I cracked the black resin case and it had to be sent to Switzerland for repair.
