And here we have another photo of Promotor driver, Tommy Birch in Baghdad. He’s the one, if you don’t recognise him from the photos in my last post, with the ‘supercilious’ look on his face. My pal, Awat, who lived in Baghdad, is sitting behind Tommy. I’m on the left and the rest of the gals and guys were from the Medical Exhibition group.
The photo was taken in the bar of the Sheraton Hotel. Tommy and I shared a room there for ten days whilst we set up the exhibition stands and sorted out the freight and travel arrangements for the exhibitors. I stayed in the Sheraton on four occasions but my usual hotel was the Meridian which was on the opposite side of the road.
The full names of the hotels were of course the 'Ishtar Sheraton" and the ‘Palastine Meridian’. By about 82/3 we had, at last, decent hotels to stay in.
