I love to hear her talk of individual beads. She holds up a bead and says: ‘This one is probably a pre-Islamic Roman glass bead’, or a stone bead: ‘this is an African Neolithic bead, which means it could be between four hundred and four thousand years old’. We are both wearing Venetian bead earrings on the picture above ( sold in the MaliMali shop)
I left Birgit in charge at the hotel and I am now in Bamako, leaving for Tunis and Keita tonight for three weeks.