Remote

The sun was pleasantly warm, the breeze balmy, and the lapping waves were sleep-inducing.

He was stretched out on a comfy sun lounge located on a beautiful pine-fringed beach on the Nicoya peninsula, Costa Rica. It was 2034; not too far removed from his real time back home. He’d decided that his recent ground-breaking advances into the heady world of time travel meant that he deserved a few days away. He was trying to decide whether to stay for one week or two. His neighbour would collect his mail and deal with the rubbish bins and his friend from the inventors’ club had agreed to pop in daily and feed the cat. He gazed around. The place was remarkably remote. There was absolutely nothing to stop him from rewarding himself with a well-earned break. He was mulling all this over, when he heard a distant crackling sound that was growing louder. He knew what it was, but didn’t have time to think.

Suddenly, he was standing in nothing but his swimming trunks on a partly snow-covered slope looking down at a remote collection of colourful houses in a small village. Checking out his monitor, that was always kept on a lanyard around his neck, told him it was now two years earlier, it was 2032 and he was in a southern region of Greenland.

He hardly had time to take it all in when he heard the crackling again.

He was now being lashed by a fierce wind and monsoonal rain, which would have blown him off his feet had he not been close enough to the trunk of a tree that he was now hanging on to. It took a real effort to wipe his eyes and consult his device. He could only just make out that it was 2514 and he as situated on a remote southern slope of the Khasi Hills, close to a mountain peak, in India.

Just as his arms were about to give out, he heard more crackling.

He was now standing on burning sand. It had to be a desert. Shading his eyes from the glare, the monitor informed him that it was 1825. He had gone back in time, not that it really mattered. He was now in the Sahara Desert on the African continent, somewhere in a remote south-west corner of Egypt.

Had you been close by, you’d have heard him curse.

Letting out a deep sigh, he mumbled, “The cat’s found the sodding remote control again!”

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