After nine and a half days of training, back to back, and as we finished the PhotoReading course, the hotel had a surprise for us.
The management of the Nippon Hotel in Istanbul, wheeled in a chocolate cake.
Ah, sheer bliss, just what the doctor ordered, it warmed the cockles of my heart.
With great ceremony, I invited Deniz my translator to cut the cake with me, which she did begrudgingly, as I think she thought that only newly married couples cut a cake in such a way. Bless. But, she was part of the training team and deserved to cut the cake too.
Participants, organisers and Deniz and myself shared the cake. Well actually, there was a lot left over. I never saw what happened to that.
Phillip Holt and Deniz Merdizan