Over to the British Museum for the talk - ancient Egypt and the Island of Cyprus. There are about thirty of us gathered in the Cyprus Gallery. The talk is interesting - before Cyprus was Roman, and long before it was Greek, it was Egyptian, and the museum has a cuneiform tablet recording trade needs. The speaker is informative - about the Egyptian Empire, reaching to the Levant, the Kingdom of Alasiya, centred in the north of Cyprus at Enkomi (near Famagusta), and Cypriot style artefacts found in Egypt and the evidence from shipwrecks, much of this predating the existence of coins.
Trail up Tottenham Court Road looking at the netbooks in the electronics shops. This is where we got J's camera a few years ago. Then up to Camden Town market, which is so busy it's hard to move along the pavement. It starts to rain, so we get on a bus, and off on finchley Road. Look in Waitrose, and hit the mark down moment. So dinner becomes a sweet potato and bean chilli with jalapenos, brown rice and spinach, which proves delicious. the instructions are fun too: "once opened use staight away or we'll come round and get you" and "no vegetables were harmed in the making of this product (apart from a little light chopping)".
JAWORSKI TRAVELS