I was walking along the sea front in Newcastle when Marty and I came across some sort of strange reflective sphere.  We stopped to look at it and took pictures like the other tourists.

Marty hadn’t seen anything like this before and I was completely underwhelmed because I have.  Last year, whilst at YAPC::NA, I got to see Cloud Gate, in the Millennium Park, Chicago.  I tried to describe this to Marty but failed miserably.  I thought it looked like a giant reflective red blood cell or an amoeba but I think the local description of “the Bean” is better.