Wednesday, December 3/2008

Morning starts with dark clouds and white caps on a grey-blue sea. Very windy and no hardy German sunbathers in evidence, but not actually cold. Text message from Jenny saying she's back from Cumbria and awaiting the birth of the grandchildren - due next month.

Try the internet but it's ridiculously slow - "plus tard" we tell him. Walk down to the souk. Horrifically windy but still not cold.

J chats in the lift with the German of lst night's flood watch. He and his wife go away for the winter - 6 weeks here, then Egypt, then Turkey. At dinner the German lady at the next table says tht they are here until January 13. The conversation is partly in English and mostly in French, and she seems also to have said that Cyprus gives her a headache, so there may have been some degree of miscommunication.