They don't begrudge you the occasional hangnail or ill-disciplined piece of jewellery - a snag merely disappears into their soft, inky blackness, instead of breaking into a run.

And after a long period of zooming over nothing but inky blackness we passed over the sodium orange glow of a town.

And there he was - a bald, burly 6ft man, looming towards me from the inky blackness.

But be warned, hedonists: everything shuts at midnight, and away from the central shopping area the roads and hedges of the island are quickly subsumed into inky blackness.