After Thursday night's Jazz therapy, the fun continued... making this a relatively good weekend! No dust storm to make staying inside watching English cable from Saudi and Dubai the only option. In the early afternoon, Tu and I went to the bookfair... which was pretty disappointing again this year. After 2007, the International publishers and distributors pulled out on principle. Why come and sell one copy of a few books only to find hundreds of photocopies of those titles everywhere in the bazaar a week later? I bought nothing but a cookbook from a Beiruti book seller. Then in the evening, Mu, Tu and I all headed to the 9th floor of the fake Sheraton for dinner.
Oh, wonder of wonders! In a dry (of large bodies of water - not of alcohol) land, we were promised monster-sized crustaceous treats from India... if the storehouse in the basement would let us have them. They did! And after a bit of salad and bread, we each received a plate- each containing 4 of the largest grilled prawns I am sure Hawler has ever seen. This picture is stolen from the internet and is not even as large as what we received... The Sheraton is apparently experimenting with the transport - if they can fly greater quantities from India to Dubai to Erbil and sell some of them off to Supermarkets here, they will continue to stock them. My fingers are crossed. I would even promise to buy them regularly (if I could be sure they would be cheaper than the approximately $50.00 they cost to order at the Sheraton).
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