Good day for packing up. Or at least a good day for being inside and not out. Very high levels of particulate matter in the air, both fine and large. And, probably not unrelated as the Sahara is usually the guilty party in this part of the world, strong wind warnings and thunder storms expected. There are isolated rain showers and some token thunder and lightning but the wind lives up to the predictive warnings. Not cold, though. Temperatures stay above twenty.
Could probably have found a sports bar for the final Formula One race of the season as we have done in Cyprus before but with access that has been intermittent at best we’ve rather got out of the habit of watching. Would probably never have begun if things hadn’t been so different forty years ago. That was before F1 was desperate to sell itself to any country with an excess of money but no tradition of motor sports. In those days BBC carried the races as did CBC (usually about six hours after the fact so you had to be careful not to hear the results before watching). Probably more lucrative now, but with some loss of soul. So today Verstappen won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and the season championship. Do know who Verstappen is. Remind me on Abu Dhabi.
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