Friday, January 8/2010

Second day of the traffic police making themselves important on the main thoroughfare outside with much whistling and waving. Not entirely clear what the objective is as motorists are pulled over - checking papers? What they're not doing is worrying about illegal mufflers or excessive noise, so when we watch films whole snatches of dialogue disappear, victims of the motorcycle cowboys, leaving us sorry we're no good at reading the Greek subtitles.

Maggi and Magne stop ini the late afternoon with Ellen, the travel rep that was with us in Israel two years ago. She's been giving a talk on a forthcoming trip to Jordan. Some talk of ex-president Papadopoulos's still missing body. Ellen's teory is that the objective was ransome, and she cites a Balkan precedent involving a lawyer with some ties to P.