The heat was making her dizzy but she still sounded upbeat at the possibility of glimpsing the president.
In a foreign policy speech in Sydney on Sunday following the G20 summit, Merkel sounded deeply despondent about Putin's policies and behaviour and gloomy about the prospects of forcing a strategic shift from the Kremlin.
To Polish ears, the notion sounded like blasphemy.
I say spoiled; in fact, it sounded quite Beckettian.
I grew up in the UK and didn't know what Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams' voice sounded like until 1994 because Margaret Thatcher decided that a voice ban, imposed in 1988, would "deny terrorists the oxygen of publicity".
"Somebody said one song sounded like Jim Morrison," says Fassbender, "but then the next one sounded like the Sex Pistols.
In the recording, Watts sounded distraught and refused to show her identification.
Having had what he plainly regarded as a successful day delivering his autumn statement the other week, George Osborne sounded as though he had woken up with a hangover when he lost his cool on the Today programme and complained bitterly about the BBC's coverage.
