When this pandemic is over I will be leading trips to Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and a new destination, Algeria. However for the time being we need to exercise some patience. Rumi – that great 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian and Sufi mystic wrote “Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.”