He's been running every day, he says, long distance, intervals, as part of the long, slow climb back to fitness.

It will take six months to complete its decline, and will remain faint for a year before beginning its slow climb to its normal brightness.

And the slow climb back, brick by brick, towards victory.

It's been a slow climb, though.

I make the slow climb up to sit by the cannons at the top of the fortress, passing boutiques and restaurants tucked into the jumble of houses.