Today is a public holiday which I think is a necessity after last night’s festivities. Fireworks were being let off until well after midnight celebrating St John’s Night and the Shortest Night of the year,...

… and this morning Bernie worked out how the exterior roller shutters at our apartment worked! It would have been good to know that on Thursday and then we could have had the shutters down to keep the...

This morning, our first stop was at the Mercat Central which is just around the corner from our apartment but closes at 3.00pm so we’ve missed it the last two days. Today we decided to make it a priority...

I forgot to mention that yesterday when we arrived the Internet situation was less than ideal. When Bernie collected the key, he was given the Internet password – it was wrong. They had provided it all...