I've mentioned that behind our condo is an old villa surrounded by a small wooded park that was, until recently, a restaurant and events location.  The place was closed under mysterious circumstances last year (most things here are under mysterious circumstances) and has been closed ever since, its front gate padlocked and its park left to go wild.  If it were not for a year-long drought, that place would be a flipping jungle by now.  Well rumor has it, via our condo's whatsapp group, that it has been sold to a nonprofit that works with drug addicts.  Yep.  A rehab center is moving in behind us.  We are not fortunate with neighbors.  There are 18 units in our building.  Four have recently sold after spending less than a month on the market.  But our "friends" upstairs?  They who sing and scream, vacuum and launder at all hours of the day and night, does THEIR place sell?  NOOOOO.  Of course with our luck we'd get tap dancers with 3 kids under 5.

We have a group of kids visiting the school from an international school in southern India.   They are lovely and polite and sound like a Bollywood movie.  Today I accompanied them on a hike into the hills behind the school.  We took them by a wonderful old villa built in the 1600's and abandoned years ago that is said to be haunted.  It certainly would make a great location for a horror film.

the kids climbing on the front gate

The two chapels at the front

one of the many overgrown gates onto the property

We saw no ghosts.  Oh well.  Later!  xxoo me