Port Said PS

I've been told that most of the recently constructed buildings in Port Said are incomplete because completed new buildings are taxed!! Bit like the bricking up of windows in the UK when Cromwell introduced a tax based on the number of windows!

We're now headed NW across the Mediterranean for Athens tomorrow. We were supposed to go there later in the voyage but there is a national strike and demos scheduled for our original date!

There is a nasty bronchitis bug sweeping through the ship which passengers are kindly passing on to each other by coughing and spluttering in every public place. There's also a gastric bug going round. I dedicated my last Karaoke number to sufferers of the latter problem - "Burning Ring of Fire".

Meanwhile I turn my back and Australia falls in a heap.  What a selfish, bigoted, greedy, incompassionate bunch we've become. Tony's going to turn the boats back - presumably based on Jesus' advice. He won't have to turn my boat back - it won't be coming back!!