"Well, now you should climb a mountain! Maybe not Everest, but a small one. I wish you could come back to London with me. There's much to explore in that city."

And now that he's in the topic, he sits up. "I'd like to see so much. I want to visit the Arctic Circle. I want to see the pyramids in Giza. Or - oh! The jungle. I've never been to a jungle!"