2002-04-18 - 5:29 p.m.

I've agreed to go on a press trip with a group of other journalists. The last time I did this I had to make small talk with the Bulgarian Minister for the Economy("Soooo....you're the poorest country in Europe....how's THAT goin'?") and was offered felatio by an old man in a lift. Nothing you particularly want to go through, but it's all good, solid material I guess. This time it's in dinghys, though.