The Pirates in Bologna (which is where I just was).

Here I am at the Brandenburg Gate with my friend. He promised to go and see the Pirates even though he is a bear.

This is set up in the studio just now. What a beautiful set! #ThePirates

Hugh and me, mid-junket. He was terrific. #ThePirates

It's very touching that my newly laundered pants have been returned in this package, That they are beige, I deny.

The whirlwind world tour now brings us to Venice

...and here Ms Liberty helpfully reinterpreted in Jelly Bean form.

....and back to New York then. Happily the weather has improved.

Who doesn't love these Manhattan interiors - - - maybe people who live here - - - well I like them.

Just possibly I failed to Tweet this picture of the sublime BRIAN BLESSED at our screening of #ThePirates Sorted.

Waitaminute. Call this California? I've been robbed.

An amazing picture: a footpath sign and its ghost double made of ice...

...not missing LA at all, not even a tiny bit...

This isn't the best picture of the Golden Globes. But that is John Lasseter's ear (left) and Andy Serkiss (centre)

Sunset in Santa Monica...

Just when you thought the thrilling countdown tension was over - - - VFX gets in on the act!

Oh look. The guys in the props department are in the Christmas mood already. Bless.

Here's all the little cameras, huddled together for warmth. Here they wait out the long dark months of winter.

OK. Without further comment . . . . . . . . . .

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