Yesterday it rained for a long time. We still went jogging anyway. It was refreshing feeling the rain and all the colors were so saturated. I decided to go out and snap a few pics afterwards. I realized I never posted a pic of our apartment/house, that’s the first picture above. We live downstairs in a basement unit. It has plenty of space but we had to get a dehumidifier to control the dampness. As you can see, we live in the country! It’s hard to believe a 5 minute walk brings you into a major city. So I guess we really live just on the outskirts of the city. But you can see how rapidly it changes from city to country here. Farming is the main industry on the island (at least that’s what I think… 
). The tangerines are starting to get ripe and the landscape is turning orange. I saw some farmers already doing a first harvest. The roads are incredibly narrow here and it’s fun to take adventures down small winding roads lined with rocks walls and see where you end up. You just might find our place someday.
The second picture is of a neighbor’s orchard. Their house was just to the right of this picture, so this is their backyard really. Many of the houses here have these big gates and the entire property is usually lined with tall, unreinforced, rock walls built with volcanic stones. There are so many of these walls everywhere that it actually starts to look like a maze sometimes.
After I snapped these photos we went over to the only rock climbing/mountaineering store I know of here and Nancy picked up a new set of boots. Then we went downtown and ended up shopping for clothes all day. I bought a new blue sweater, a green shirt and a brown puffy vest that will fit over my coat on a really cold day. All in all, it was a fun day out!
