Last Sunday John and I were tasked with entertaining a couple of people visting John’s company – Raymond from Hong Kong and Richard from the USA. In order that the task did not eat in to our valuable golf time we offered to take them to play golf. Given we represented four different continents we dubbed it the inter-continental golf tournament.

Raymond had never been on a golf course. In Hong Kong the fees just to be on the waiting list of a golf club are huge, and being a member costs c4 million HK$ a year. So the average Joe, or Raymond, only gets to play at driving ranges. He was totally thrilled to be on an actual golf course and not even slightly daunted. Admittedly he wasn’t great to start with, but towards then end he was hitting some pretty good shots - even if he had an inventive swing.

After golf John took Richard to have his photograph taken with a Koala in Darling Harbour and then they and Raymond went for a few drinks at a bar in the harbour. They were pretty taken with the Australian women walking past apparently.