Paradise lost

Hello, and welcome to another interruption of my travelogue for a July update. After all, the events I'm writing about here have happened just under a month ago. No fear of them disappearing into the mists of time any time soon, though, as life has been a bit of a rollercoaster lately. It was the day after our flea market - the calendar tells me this was Monday the 18th of July - and I wasn't exactly ready for another working week. My colleague was on holiday, so that I wasn't able to take the day off to chill out and take stock after a day of trading. We were quite exhausted when we called it quits on Sunday, but I still managed to put away my unsold items, shaking...