Far too civilised (almost)...

Road works are now progressing faster than we expected... it looks like we might actually have fully-functioning road and pavement access to the house by Christmas. We still had to treck through a quagmire of mud in yesterday's rain, though...

On another note, our peach tree seems to have been confused by the sunny weather we've had recently. Beautiful as it is, I can't help but think it really shouldn't be blossoming in November!

Colour!

After having spent so long with the house being that delightful colour called "cement", it seems to be springing to life now that the paint is starting to go on.

We're also loving the amount of daylight upstairs, something that we notice even more now that the walls have got their first coat of white paint.

Hector and Rosalino are now dedicating themselves to the 'tapanco' (the wooden mezzanine above the living room), and with the beams in place you can now get a better picture of what it'll be like.

Los lavabos

Other people in Xalapa go shopping at "Liverpool" but we decided to do our bit of impulse-buying when we saw a massive collection of ceramic washbasins for sale. These are the two we chose. Pretty chuffed with them, particularly for 450 pesos each!

We're now planning colour schemes for the bathrooms. There are even tiles matching the design on the left.