11th October
Bethlehem.
My day of fasting passed surprisingly quickly. Only in the late morning was I unusually hungry, though the absence of water throughout the day meant that by around 4pm I started getting a headache from dehydration. The iftar was good too, but after a day of eating nothing you get full very quickly, so it’s not the enormous feast that celebratory meals, such as Christmas dinner, are in the UK.
Tomorrow brings me back to London, and to the start of a week that would have been pretty ordinary a few months ago. It seems a shame that my trip home has coincided with the holiday here, as it would be interesting to see Palestine during the Eid, but if it was any other way then I wouldn’t be able to come back, so all things considered it has worked out extremely well.
