It has been some time since we last heard from Sir John about his progress on his German translation of Ultima 6. And, to be fair, the latest update from him doesn’t actually contain more than an indirect mention of that project.

It would appear that, for lack of a better term, Sir John was on a break:

Sorry for not posting for quite some time now, but I took a break and was gone a while. Did some travelling and the like.
(This, of course, does NOT mean, that I intended to abandon my projects.)

Now, that I’m back, I hope I can pick up work, where I left it. Although this will mean to get acquainted to tools, text and the lot again.

But, hey, look – I even got you a present: I travelled the world high and low and look what I finally found in a remote spot in New Zealand

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…Silverleaf trees. I had a look for FFuzzy’s village but since I had no honey on me… Darn, bad luck

I should really have known better

You can see one of the images of these trees above. Sir John asserts that the camera really doesn’t do justice to just how brilliantly silver the foliage actually was, but even so…it’s apparent that these are not green leaves, isn’t it?