The date today, the 11th August, has been rolling around my head with a vague familiarity that I couldn't quite put my finger on. Then it struck me. Nothing breathtakingly important, just that 12 years ago today, one of the most magnificent total eclipses of the sun occurred. The reason I remember this phenomena at all is because at the time I was honeymooning in Bali and in a strange twist of events, for once, my homeland was one of the best places to see it in the World. It was one of the only times I could have witnessed something great and was literally on the other side of the planet.
