16th
Still hot…..
Unfortunately the thunderstorm we hoped we’d get to clear the air and cool things down hasn’t yet arrived, so it was very hot on site today and there was a hot strong wind blowing from the south-east (khamsin-like weather), making working conditions very unpleasant, especially as we were cleaning on a slope, over what we think is a mud-brick enclosure wall, right in the path of all the wind-blown dust and powdered brick. The photo below, taken this morning, makes the weather look a lot better than it was!
Cleaning lower courses of the same wall as the large chunk behind Jeff. The two gentlemen sitting on top of the mound are the policemen who come to the site (on the motorbike in the foreground) from Riyad every day.
We stopped work a little early as everyone was very tired and dusty, and drove back to Kafr es-Sheikh, following for quite a while, the truck below. Since we were stuck behind it, I had plenty of time to study the many logos and transfers on the back – they include Donald Duck, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, the Michelin man, the Rolling Stones’ ‘tongue’ image, the Nike logo, galloping horses, images of ‘bowling’, hearts, flowers and many variants of the Mercedes emblem!
Multi-patterned truck on the road from Riyad to Kafr es-Sheikh.
We’re going to wait until evening to go out and do some shopping, in the hope that it will have cooled down by then. I took this photo at the back of the hotel yesterday evening.
The moon and palm fronds.
