Yesterday afternoon we went to Albi for some shopping and to visit our friend Malik who is a student at the university. His tiny student apartment was crammed with books and computers, but we (and we were five) made ourselves comfortable whilst Malik rustled up a delicious meal of aubergines, onions, tomatoes, both as a hot dish and a salad. There was some reminiscing of the early days at Rehoboth and Montauban and discussions about the political situation in sub Sahara Africa.
Driving through Albi it was lovely to see the animated Christmas market and returning after sunset to see the illuminations in the city centre, but the morning there had been marked by a fire in an old building close to the Cathedral requiring pompiers to intervene. Happily our day was incident free.
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| Shoppers and tourists watch pompiers at work. |
