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So very quiet

 
It´s been years since I´ve been at a place this quiet. Years. 

The only distinct noise in this village are the sounds of dogs barking and hens clucking. Occasionally, there is a loud tractor or two.  It´s a tiny village where we are with not even a bakery; we do our shopping, banking, etc in the neighbouring villages. Walking around, I see young girls riding their horses, tractors coming home from fields and dogs going crazy, running around and barking at me. The dogs are fenced (and often small) but still I´m scared enough to cross the street. The silence in the house is greater. Sometimes deafening. I don´t think I´ve ever experienced such stillness in Hong Kong.    

 

My favourite people are away

 

Back from Menorca and I am without the company of my 2 favourite people. E is travelling while the cuteone has gone back to his mum´s. I have spent most of the afternoon working on excel spreadsheets, including trying to justify the recent purchase of Spanish made heels and clutch bags which were on sale inspired by the fashion and commentary at http://www.redcarpet-fashionawards.com.

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I had planned to go for a walk an hour ago. It was sort of sunny then; I put on my trainers but faffed about and made myself a cup of tea and it suddently started to pour down.  I´m not ready to be caught in the rain, recovering from yet another bout of cold so the procrastination actually helped me. S, who came by this morning to help clean, told me that the weather here has been unpredictable and awful during the last 2 weeks.Oh dear, I do hope the sunny days will return.

A small boat and black lizards

 

Have you ever seen black coloured lizards or an old fisherman wee infront of you?

No neither have I, that is, until today when we took a boat trip to here, a small deserted island.

Apart from the black lizards, there were only the blue and white lighthouse, lichen covered stones and some 3 different types of native plants. Appparently the black lizards cannot survive elsewhere: numerous attempts to bring them to the main island or beyond had failed (no picture here of the lizards seeing as I was repulsed by them).

 

 

We had arrived on the island via a 'yacht'. I made another lost-in-translation mistake and assumed it would be similar to the HK ones (e.g. like this) and packed accordingly (magazines, ipad, bikini to lounge on the sundeck). But it was really a small fishing boat manned by a 70 something year old chap called D who carried a huge belly and tales of eating cats during the Spanish civil war and being seduced by married women when he was just a young boy. 

Excluding D, there were 7 of us. I came on-board last and perched awkwardly above the deck, on top of the cabin (if it can be called that), for lack of space. I didn´t mind it as much thinking the small boat would soon enough bring us to the real "yacht" (haah).

The journey to the island took a number of hours to and fro and was at times bumpy; I was glad I had finally learned how to swim properly (I still owe a post on this topic). We sailed around the islands and stopped a couple of times for some swimming which everyone else did except for D, E and me. D continued to man the boat, E slept while I day dreamt about world domination. At some point during this time, D stood up nonchalantly to relief himself into the sea but dribbled most of his wee into the boat. I woke E up and asked him to move up closer to me whilst I continued to perch on the uncomfortable cabin roof (with my head hitting the sail), thankful that I was above ground wee.

I could only tell the others about wee-gate after we landed.

 

Drawing a submarine

By the cute one on my ipad. I dare say this is better than my attempt.