Diamonds and Boats
We started the day with a visit to the Gassan Diamond factory. I’d always imagined that “cutting” diamonds involved some sort of blade but it turns out that it is mostly grinding and polishing rather than cutting. Yeah, there’s a diamond in that clamp somewhere. The whole diamond market is a scam, with a cartel of suppliers maintaining artificially high prices, but, hey, shiny! Our tour guide seemed intent on getting through the presentation as fast as possible, but he…