Day 10- Wednesday

True to form we are given a huge breakfast before being sent off for our final day in the field. We start at the top of the Bethlehem pecking order with the Mayor Dr. Victor Batarseh. He is a powerful, dignified man, and tells us a lot about the city.

In yet another Norwegian connection we find that last week we met the Norwegian Prime Minister and has a photo of the two of them shaking hands. We have our photo taken at the end of our interview too.

We are dog tired and the first interview is a pretty tough one so by the time we get to Wi'am (www.planet.edu/alasah) we're drooping, but some Arabic coffee picks us up.

Then a short break and some delicious Chicken Shwarma before heading off to our final, and one of the most exciting meetings, with OCHA, the UN Organisation for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (www.ochaopt.org). We are given the same briefing they gave Tony Blair two days earlier. In fact I sat in the same chair he did.

We have lots to talk about and they have some incredible statistics about the occupation and we discuss a number of quite technical points including reliability of information and environmental issues as a possible international community pressure point. It's all really useful.

We end the day completely exhausted. We think about trying to catch up with our note taking but settle instead for some more basketball (the sport of our time here) and a slap up meal at the Hospital where we are staying. We enjoy great food and drink in the company of some colleagues and finish the day off with Gin and Tonics with the family we are staying with before passing out.