Mournful Music

Thanks to Seth and Henrietta for all the music, and also well done for spot on advice which I shouldn't have ignored. You said that the Beach Boys might be too mournful for an Iraqi playlist and sure enough, coming in over Istanbul I woke up to: "I wanna go home / why don't they let me go home? / This is the worst trip / I've ever been on."

Ha! Actually it did make me happy because it made me laugh, a lot, and starting with low expectations can be a good thing, the Stoics said. Let's see how it pans out...