A good friend, my travelling ‘brother’ Allan Eastman – film and TV director, bon vivant, gourmet, ancient history obsessive, philosopher – sent me this picture taken yesterday in one of our favourite places in the world: a narghile emporium in Istanbul.

It made me think of so many wonderful times there – and an article I wrote for another friend’s excellent online magazine: Chris Oke’s ERRANT on my strange love affair with smoke.

Here ’tis:

http://www.errantmagazine.ca/hubble-bubble-no-toil-no-trouble/