1. The hotel staff are very welcoming -- the chamber maids sing about their work, and have a 'good morning' for me when I pass them in the corridors; and at breakfast the server teases my male colleagues, which they absolutely love.
2. Quite by chance I arrive just at the right time to see the two-storey tall mechanical bull come to life. Its eyes roll and flash and it shakes its head and tail.
3. When I get back in, no one is home except Alec. He comes out of his room and squeezes me in a big hug.
