Susa was beautiful. Videophone calls from London to Rio kept his love alive.

Now, outside the café where they met, he would surprise her when she arrived from the beach.

Her tanned body reflected in his sunglasses, as she nonchalantly brushed past to kiss Paulo, her husband, the café owner.

John B Sinclair is a much-travelled Scot who has now returned to Scotland, where he enjoys freelance writing on a variety of subjects.