When we escaped from the apartment of the drunken crazy expat landlady, a sympathetic soul took pity on us and offered for us to stay for free at a building that is currently being renovated. This place is a former ten room hotel that is slowly being brought back to its former glory. It is a construction zone, however, so living conditions are a bit primitive in some ways. We're sleeping on an air mattress, but it's actually fairly comfortable as far as air mattresses go. The kitchen has only a small refrigerator and no stove or microwave, but we bought a small electric hot plate and a couple of inexpensive pots to cook meals. There's no television or internet but a nearby park has free wifi. For our showers we have to go to the far end of the building to the only room with hot water right now. But for all these shortcomings it is a grand space with arched colonnades, elegant tiled floors and soaring ceilings. It's also more centrally located. And we're the only ones here, apart from the friendly lone worker who is here during the day. More importantly, the price is right and there is no drunken crazy expat landlady to contend with. We're happy here.
Interior courtyard
Nice but currently nonfunctional pool
Stairs lead to an upper terrace; back gate leads to a green space.
Deborah makes do in a stove-less kitchen
In our room.
Deborah gets creative for a clothesline.
A dead bat.
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