Episode 48 - A Chance
Episode 48 - A ChanceYacht ‘Rosalinda’, Saint-Tropez, France, 31 December As I watch the yacht, I finish all of the cheese, olives, crisp bread, drink up the bottle of Bordeaux, treat myself to the remains of the chocolate ice cream in the freezer, and even have a couple of glasses of whisky. The night falls. But I don’t turn the light on. I fear it might give away my ‘watch post’. Besides, there is no need for it. The plentiful lights of the black yacht, beaming far into the night, illuminate everything around it, including the cockpit salon of the ‘Rosalinda’. I glance at the watch: eight o’clock. The first guests, a group of Arabic women in bright evening dresses, appear on the boardwalk. I point my binoculars at them. Laughing and gesticulating, women walk one after the other up
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