I'm sitting outside with a post meal cigar beside the pool.

Just had a great meal and recommend this to everyone. I bought two huge 3.5lb lobsters (live) from Walmart (difficult to get live lobsters at home).

Steamed them and we (all six of us) gorged on them with toast and melted butter, washed down with mugs of cold pink champagne (Veuve Clicquot, my favourite).

Cannot recommend it highly enough - one of the pleasures of renting a Villa rather than staying in a hotel is the freedom to do this sort of thing.

Go for it - ignore the squeals from the kids, once they get the sweet taste of freshly steamed lobster with butter dripping down their chins the squeamishness disppears.

Doesn't half make a mess, though. Mrs T will be shouting in the morning as she cleans it up!