Our children and other animals

One of the things here that's a little bit hard to get used to at first are the animals allowed to roam freely in bars and restaurants. Dogs especially, and cats too, not to mention the small lizards that appear on the walls everywhere!

The kids are a bit nervous around dogs, but so long as they see they dogs aren't going to leap on them, it's alright and they get quite friendly especially with the smaller ones. To my surprise they haven't freaked out at the lizards and other assorted wildlife like dragonflies. Last night Briana calmly said that something wet jumped across her foot. Mosquitoes are our Public Enemy Number 1 and we are heavy consumers of lotions and potions to keep them away.

The other day, I was on a sunlounger when a lizard jumped down almost on top of me from the bar roof, followed right after by the cat which was chasing it. The lizard sat still for a while on the neighbouring sun lounger, while the cat lurked underneath. Then the lizard took off, and was easy prey for the cat, who took it off into the neighbouring English pub for a tasty meal.