This is the first time I've ever woken up on Christmas morning with a gentle cooling breeze from a ceiling fan and a view of the sea from the bedroom window. All very strange, but really rather pleasant.
Yesterday started with a run along the seafront. It was warm but not uncomfortable: we finished around 8:30am, just before the sun rose above the hills and really started to beat down. The promenade was busy with joggers, walkers, people carrying pastries and fruit to beachside cafés, even a pair of white horses being prepared for what we thought might be a beach wedding. It was a great start to the day and we returned to have breakfast on our balcony - an Alexis special of granola, yoghurt and papaya.
Then we managed to connect with the folks back home on FaceTime. It was very strange to see them sitting around the fire, talking about their adventure to pick up the turkey through floods and road closures.
We had found a nice coffee shop one block back from the beach, called 'A Page in the Sun'. It's more of a secondhand bookshop, with the walls lined with shelves of multinational fiction. It has free wifi, and best of all a couple of deckchairs that Alexis and I have adopted as our own. So, late morning on Christmas Eve found us browsing the books, drinking an espresso, reading The Times whilst in a deckchair!
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