Well. I'm in the riyad and it's gorgeous - as is our 21 year old house boy. Will work on him.

Pounding headache so I'll keep it brief! We set off from Brian's at 5.30am in freezy-cold weather - William driving - and took the train to Paris, flew in over desert and caught a first glimpse at the Atlas Mountains - very nice! Shame we were an hour late. That was all caused by someone leavinga bag somewhere so we had to go back to the terminal just as we were revving up for take-off. Then all the Arabs on board went mental because they thought that there had been a security alert and that we were all going to die.

It's about 9pm now.

The house is right in the middle of Marrakech and tiled throughout with an orange tree in the courtyard and little squawky birds who live in it.