Wednesday, November 26/2008

We've been here a week and a high proportion of our fellow guests are no longer the same as at the beginning of our stay. I'm now writing the journal aware that the keyboard for which it is destined is different; the most difficult letter to get right is the 'w', placed in the usual spot for the 'z'. (There are 5 w's in the last sentence). Will I begin to write like a stutterer, choosing phrases that avoid problems? A little inattention and witty becomes zitty.

Temperature still about 35 in the morning sun but 22 in the morning shade with enough breeze that the sunbathers look for sheltered spots. We sit mostly on our balcony, having a large fourth floor one overlooking the sea.

Both BBC and French television have scenes of Bangkok airport, taken over by protestors and effectively closed to flights. Usually both sides in Thailand knoz the value of tourism but isùs a good time to be planning to fly from Tunis rather than Bangkok.Then in the evening Bangkok is knocked off the news by live coverage of violence in Mumbai, with more than 80 dead and guests held hostage in luxury hotels.