After a couple of long ferry rides I am now on Neil Island, one of the smallest inhabited islands of the archipelago. Part of the point of this trip was escaping the shopping season, and so far it had worked well. But look what the Sea Shell resort, where I am staying for a few days, has cooked up… Foiled again! Very sweet though, the present is a chocolate Christmas cake. There is a Christmas dinner too. Santa Claus is wearing flipflops.