It was still dark, of course, and our coach was full of elderly nuns and young children in pushchairs, all carrying picnics and giant thermoses of tea. |
It truly felt that revolution was in the air, if revolution meant sleeping bags and Thermoses of hot tea, rather than pitchforks. |
All penknives, soft drink bottles and thermoses were confiscated, but demonstrators were allowed to keep their banners and leaflets. |
Some people, more prepared than I was, had brought biscuits, thermoses and sleeping bags. |
However, the putrid coffee poured out of industrial Thermoses made me feel like I had just attended some sort of wretched business conference. |
Others simply lean against the sea wall, thermoses at the ready, their faces turned to the sun. |