Today is Friday, and a beautiful late summer day. I worked hard this morning, but then played hookie for the rest of the day!

Venetia and I took an Uber (since we’re not allowed to use public transportation) to Olivos, where Cecilia lives. Cecilia and her dog, Mora, met us there and we walked over to the Port of Olivos and had lunch at a lovely parilla called La Nelly. As we are also currently barred from eating inside restaurants, the outside tables were all full and we were lucky to get one.

After lunch we walked down by the marina and had a look at all the boats. There’s a recurring problem here with these water lilies, which reproduce rapidly and can end up choking the waters and the boats can’t get out. It looks as if it hasn’t reached that point yet, but somebody had better get them out of there before too long!

We are having an incredible run of beautiful sunny days, even though we are into fall now. So we are taking advantage of it while we can.