Just home from 24 hours in the Great Wen with our Palestinian friend Issa in tow, who did a very good impression of the wide-eyed tourist. Carefully arranged to catch the sunrise, we rode the full circle in the London Eye, something we never would have contemplated without a guest. To be fair, it was actually a highly enjoyable touristic experience, especially when the dying sun caught the sides of several skyscrapers and set them aflame in a divine crimson hue.
One of his greatest fascinations in the week he has spent with us is the (for him) incredible variabilty in the weather, changing, as it has been doing, from brilliant sunshine to heavy rain as often as 4 times in an hour. Where he hails from, the weather is so predictable that it is rarely a subject for discussion and no one ever feels the need to catch a weather forecast.
Today, in sultry conditions, we visited at his specific request, London Zoo, a place I have not visited for nearly 50 years. My highlights: an incredible ant-lion in the insect house, and then, after the heavens opened and drenched animals and humans alike, a group of zebras sheltering shoulder to shoulder under a tiny lean-to. Sensible...
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