Guess life isn’t always dull for customs officials. Officers at Famagusta Port, just down the road from where we stayed during the lockdown, have seized a large shipment of sexual enhancement gel. Referred to as 4200 bottles of illegal sexual enhancement gel (leaving it unclear whether legal sexual enhancement gel exists, but this apparently violates the Medicines Law). Hidden in a truck that arrived by ship. The driver has been taken into custody.
Remember being in the souq (no, damn it, predictive text - not in the soup) in Tunisia when a furtive would be seller with everything but the trench coat tried to peddle viagra. Told him indignantly ‘Pas nécessaire’.
Also in the line of undesirable imports were being visited by dust from North Africa, as happens periodically. Pretty hazy over the sea this morning but not oppressive. Also gale force winds in the early hours that drop later in the day.