From Michael Turvey
Thames Ditton, Surrey
Many thanks to Jay Pasachoff for drawing attention to the Caribbean eclipse
(Letters, 31 January, p 50).
My wife and I took his advice to “hop on a plane if you can” and were
rewarded with a splendid view of this spectacular phenomenon from Antigua. The
travel agent reacted in the same bemused manner as that depicted in your
accompanying cartoon.
I am most grateful, for I saw no information about this event anywhere else.
Perhaps it was as well that there was little publicity this side of the
Atlantic, otherwise all the planes might have been full. There were certainly
lots of eclipse watchers from North America, many of whom had no idea that there
will be a European eclipse next year. We are not yet a global village.
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