And then, just like that...

... Summer arrived.

In less than 24 hours, the temperature went from a 'perfectly-normal-for-this-season-yeah-right-who-ever-believed-that' 11 degrees Celsius to a 'now-that-feels-more-like-it-almost-too-warm-wouldn't-you-say-well-some-people-simply-manage-to-complain-no-matter-what-if-you-ask-me' 25 degrees Celsius.

From one day to the next, we traded warm winter coats, woolen scarves, frozen noses, early spring flus and long stripey socks (that would be just me actually...) for the peeling noise of sweaty sandy sunburnt thighs as they come loose from the fake plastic leather of train seats.

The mosquito net is up, we've thrown open the windows, and the house, like its owners, is absorbing heat through all its pores. It feels good...