Timbuktu

I wanted to post or tweet from Tombouctou yesterday, just because it seemed one ought to do so if one could, but after all we were too tired and too hot to walk from the no-wifi hotel to the cybercafe. So I napped, and we had a superb rooftop dinner yesterday evening instead.

I am now in Ouagadougou making ready to go to bed after eating some very good pommes frites (french fries). As some wit said, the only things the French left in West Africa were French bread and pommes frites, rather th...