A digression before I get to life in this place. The day we came out to inspect our villa before signing the paperwork, a bad thing happened. I experienced what we thought might be a stroke. EMTs arrived, very hot ones as I recall, sick as I was. Our local hospital just around the corner was on bypass because of COVID, so I had to be taken to a nearby town. We spent the day there having endless tests. We arrived home at 10:30 p.m. with no apparent ill effects and nothing wrong. I had trouble swallowing for a few weeks, but no other symptoms. Wine helped. There were moments of terror and grief as I thought we had waited too long and the move was ruined. Not so. Here we are, Jim, Kiki and I on a hot summer day with the AC cooling our cozy, peaceful villa.
