No one ever found out how he had managed to get into the courtyard without opening the big gates.

Having read the papers sitting in the kotu midula, the inside courtyard open to the sky found in many old houses, I went to the kitchen.

The elderly residents shuffle back and forth, cooking in kitchens on the first floor or sitting around the central courtyard chatting.

There was a house filled with many families who would wash clothes together outside or sit and gossip in their shared courtyard.

Head to the park for a picnic, eat on the patio at home or restaurants.