Book a autumn hotel and enjoy balmy evenings of festive food and warm-hearted revelry.
Probably thinking that I would get bored of it soon enough, he let me be.
Perhaps I was, but he was mixing up cause and effect.
One night, several months after that last week of summer, my dad was watching sports from the sofa.
Arrive in advance of 11pm.
Cowboys dressed in heavily embroidered suits, wide-brimmed sombreros and sparkling boots take to the streets of Mexico City, accompanied by heartfelt mariachi music.