I’ve loved the time we’ve spent in Piriapolis: lots of good food, good exercise and plenty of time to relax. I keep thinking about coming back to stay here for a few months, but then I think I’d get bored and stale if I was in the same place for such a long time. Also, it’s a very long way from Vancouver, so that probably wouldn’t work. It seems strange to me now in a number of ways to think about settling down to live in one place again: I really have become a nomad, at least for the time being. There’s nothing in me that wants to maintain a home or mow a lawn. The longest we’ve stayed anywhere in the recent past was in La Manzanilla and though I really needed most of our time there, I was also very ready to leave by the end – itchy feet. I still haven’t been anywhere, apart from Vancouver, that I could envisage as a permanent home.