Another act of good will.

We saw a Turkish Inn - we had also seen one in Acco, Israel - two tiers of arches in a square courtyard. After that we experienced another good deed. A few days before we had been approached by a man in the same area who had invited us to tea in his shop, and we had been very blunt with him and moved on. We really get followed and harassed every hour by keen young men. But now we bumped into the man again, just as I was saying to Paz that some of the offers must be innocent. Anyway we had decided that we should accept some of the offers for tea or coffee. In daylight, not dark alleys. Anyway so we encountered this man again and allowed ourselves to be ushered into a jewellery shop, 3 paces square. We sat on the window sill and enjoyed lemon tea. It was all pleasant and safe, the place was overflowing with men and we managed to banter in pigeon English about our respective countries. They were Muslim Albanians.

We left then and walked back "home". I said to Paz:"I believe in God". Just when you think all humanity is fucked up, he goes and gives you a couple of examples to the contrary. Pure good will. I firmly believe that you have to keep an eye out for these moments or you can miss them.

Paz is more cautious than me but when need be she can tell people off better than me. So when we get harassed I just stand back and let her sock it to them. We are having a lot of laughs, we are in glee most of the time. When Paz laughs she pees, and I constantly have her peeing!

Tomorrow Belgrade.

Photo by Pijlmans