My Neighbourhood

Several people that I regularly contact are aware that my local bar (Raimundo’s) is basically my neighbour, and I often joke with them that 11 metres is so far to go for my nightly stroll to watch the news and have my customery beer at night. I have been promising and promising to post a picture showing just the level of inconvenience 11 metres can be. Unfortunately my gate isn’t well defined, being under the smaller tree on the right, but you get the idea.

Here is a shot of the inside of the bar. Raimundo wasn’t aware that I snapped this while he was fitting a new light.

Bars like this don’t exist in most of the first world. Every neighbourhood has one, sometimes two or three; we will soon have two, there is one under construction just 20 metres on the other side of Raimundo’s bar. They are so much a part of our neighbourhood, they play a part in the life of the praça, yes, we are right on the praça. I’ll post pictures of that one day too.