shopping in tangier

No, I have not run off to Tangier. :-) These are from a trip we took a couple years ago. But as I am swamped with work at the moment, which is leaving little time to write a proper blog entry, I figured I would post a couple photos for now. Big Jim will be back in the village in less than four weeks (yay!), and I am furiously trying to finish a book project so that I can spend our two-week break completely free of work thoughts.
Big Jim currently is entertaining his son A., who arrived in Islamabad from the UK bright and early (5:50 am) Sunday morning for a two-week visit. Safe journey, although understandably security at Heathrow veryveryvery tight. Today they visited Taxila, which is a nearby ancient Buddhist site, and a trip to Kashmir is planned for the weekend. Now before anyone freaks out, they are going with a military escort, which has been arranged by a vg friend of our vg friend Father L., who is a retired Jesuit priest we know from Brussels AND who spent several years in Pakistan building schools. So all will be fine. :-) hasta pronto, mylifeinspain P.S. For friends awaiting e-mail responses, they will come as soon as I get pass this wave of work. Thanks for your patience. :-)