Thank you, César

for your Antipodean assemblage.

When I was growing up in New Zealand I was taught that if you drilled a hole directly through the Earth you would come up in the Iberian Peninsula. It always seemed a long way away.

Now as I learn, with more precision, that if I'd started digging from my then home in Hokitika I would have exited in your home in Grijó

the
distance doesn't
seem that great.