Crude awakening

We're back from the land of rolling hills and people who talk with their hands, and oh how different this morning's stalls of dried shrimp, oysters and sea cucumber were to the bounty of tomatoes, aubergines and courgettes we left behind...

The last meal we had in Italy was on the terrasse of a pizzeria overlooking the Colosseum. It has been there since 1956. Back in Hong Kong, a new restaurant called Modern Toilet has just opened, with seats shaped like, that's right, toilets and drinks served in cups designed as mini-urinals.

Now where would you rather be:

Here?


Or here?