There are alleyways like these all over city with electricity wires and phone cables going down them. It's normal here but I always find them strange, they're not the kind of thing you get back home in York or Edinburgh are they. This is the exciting view from the back door of work.

Tonight the tasks of more flat apartment cleaning and packing took up most of our time. We thought we hadn't accrued much stuff over the last 6 months but now we find we've one or two things more than we expected, including 3 packets of organic oregano!