Here’s the video of Emerald Villa. It takes ages to find a compression scheme to get a reasonable file size, so I hope this works! It’s 25MB, which is pretty big. This is a Quicktime file, so it will open on the iPad, I hope.

I’ve just been chatting about the villa and yes, it’s completely open to the elements. The living area can’t be shut off. If it poured a torrent of rain, the spray would probably blow in. I guess you just take the chance.

Also, mozzies. I did ask about it this morning and they said the area is regularly sprayed. Again, I’ll just go with the flow. Electrostatic insect zappers are easy to get and DEET spray works well. I’d be scared of dengue fever, but…

I’m wondering if it might even be possible to get into this place by next week, thereby saving all my hotel cost for the next fortnight. Possible.

OK, it took about 10-15 mins to upload and played fine for me, so I hope it works for you.

Malam.

Visitors will be very welcome, of course. That’s the whole idea – come and stay. Two spare double bedrooms. I might have to take bookings!