We set off for the church this morning for a 12 noon service only to find that due to the expected unrest today the police had advised that it should be postponed until tomorrow, so we carried on to Road 9 to the Metro (a shop not a place to catch trains) to buy food. Not that we don’t have any, but it’s nice to keep topped up with bread, fruit and veg. All of which are in the shops at the moment.
On the way we walked through Port Siad Square (more of a roundabout than a square) where there is police station and took the tank photo on my phone. Listening to the problems some journalists are having with their equipment I am not keen on taking out my proper camera, so you are stuck with this at the moment.
There is a police station here and the tanks (4) and 2 armoured personal carriers are looking after it. It was nice to see the police again, their presence on the streets is sadly lacking. Occasionally they drive past in their vans, but they are generally out of sight. Before the protests there would be 2 or 3 outside the embassies as we walked around, but they are not there any more!
So we are sat waiting (watching the BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera and the inflammatory Iranian Press TV), listening to the army helicopter flying overhead, to see what will happen in Tahrir Square and the impact it will have . . . . .
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