Sahara Dust in a different location.

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Cawdor Castle is a magnet for foreign tourists.  With my severely limited mobility, one of the red seats (Cawdor colour) provides me with a perch while my active wife goes off on a long woodland trail.  But people come to talk to the old man on the red bench and there is often a good exchange of views.

A splendid young lady and I got chatting.  She was Brazilian and I asked about the recent floods.  They sounded bad, but it wasn't in her part of Brazil.  I talked about the Sahara dust.  "We wouldn't have the Amazon without the dust."  (provides the condensation nuclei plus soil enrichment).  That was an unexpected response from what was clearly a very smart person.  She is a civil engineer working in Colorado, USA.

An Eastern-looking elderly couple - I could place their background - spoke in perfect English, albeit with an accent.  They were from Singapore and English is their everyday language.  The man was quick to point out that per capita, Singapore is perhaps the  wealthiest place on Earth.  I held out my hands in a begging gesture.  Mr. & Mrs 'Singapore' immediately got the joke.

Jack