This is the Hermitage Medical Clinic in Lucan, Co. Dublin. The foyer (atrium?) alone (above) is like the Stardeck. And the black bit on the left would normally be streaming in light, except they expect you to appear at 7.30am, and in winter that is very dark. The place is screaming with technology with which I will not bore you. At the most trivial level there is a paper towel roll dispenser without any way of getting the paper out until you see a little sign which appears to be telling you to wave your hand in front of it. Which I did, and out came a section of paper towelling. The last time I had an experience like that was in Köln in the 1950s, when my mother, myself, and my sister couldn't figure out what a red box on the wall on the public street was supposed to do. It was clear it needed money, so we put in a Mark to see what happened, and out came a striall of postage stamps. This machine above, on the wall in the Hermitage, is a dry hand steriliser. You put your hands in and a little wind gets up and they are sterilised. No cheap plonk sterilisers here. Mind you, a man would need to be very careful what bodily bit he put into this contraption.