his bar tab?
That’s ridiculous
No, that was the cost of the search and rescue for her son and the British governmnet folks involved. Her husband’s & the brit delegation’s bar tab was about 80 Pounds at today’s equivalent (post inflation).
I think you need to look at what the bar tab in this case was - it comprised drinks purchased after Mark was found at a thank you celebration to which the rescue teams who had found him were invited, arranged by British diplomats who had been liaising with the Algerians. It wasn’t just Mark’s personal drinks.
(Just posted the same in a duplicate thread, I created - this one wasn’t there when I started posting, but beat me to the post).