The book is about academic happenings that took me around the world on a journey I never dreamed of and I am not sure I wanted; almost everything that happened was and still is a surprise to me. I write it as a kind of activity report. This not a journal since I have not written regularly in its pages. It is a publication about what I remember mostly from my professional life and what I usually do as a professor at the University of Oxford; of course, some of my thoughts pop up here from time to time. I do not think there are many people who have studied and taught in Toronto, Ottawa, Sydney and Oxford, met and had discussions with Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Noam Chomsky, Yehudi Menuhin, Roger Penrose (Nobel Prize Laureate), Richard Swinburne, and David Chalmers for example, and are still part of the conversations taking place in the intellectual world today. I have often been asked what it is like in Oxford and the institution where I have worked for 26 years and where I still work, so what I say may be of interest. Besides, I feel a kind of duty to do this because I have had the chance to find myself in extraordinary situations in the good sense of the word, and it seems only right to express my gratitude by recounting some of them.