Describe a place where you like to relax.

The place I would describe is the flat roof of my building, which is not strictly speaking somewhere anybody is supposed to sit. It is four floors up, there is a water tank and a great deal of drying washing, and from one corner you can see across most of the neighbourhood to the hills behind it. I go up perhaps three evenings a week, usually around seven when the heat has gone. I do almost nothing there. Sometimes I take tea, sometimes a book I do not read. The reason it works is the distance. You are above the noise rather than away from it, so you can still hear the street, the horns, somebody practising an instrument badly, and none of it is aimed at you. I have tried to relax in more obviously relaxing places, cafes and parks, and I usually end up watching people instead. The roof gives me the one thing I actually need, which is to be somewhere nobody can find me for an hour. The building will probably put a lock on the roof door eventually, and until then I am going up there three times a week.