Like a neglected ice cream we have melted, dripped and are now in a sad pool on the pavement. It is too hot. Not too hot for the beach but certainly too hot to carry out normal day to day activities in a city where air conditioning is far from the norm.

Heat has also proved almost a complete appetite killer. I said almost. We have still managed to whip up a few dinners, keeping the heat of the stove to a minimum and focusing on salads and ice and iced salads. It has been too hot for photos, and almost too hot for typing, but we have managed to take a few vines of what we have been cooking. Check it out (and if the chirpy music makes you feel like you want to punch someone, it is probably dehydration, go grab a cold glass of water).