The bills will go to the lower house first thing to be passed so that the i's are dotted and the t's are crossed, ready for when the new senators take up their benches next week.
The rooms look a bit like stone thatched wigwams, some with private terraces, but it's the drama of the cliff-edge dotted with diving platforms that holds everyone's attention, alternately tempting and terrifying.
One by one they came – vessels the size of tenement blocks – disgorging holidaymakers on to an esplanade dotted with little white buildings in scenes of exuberant commotion.
A fortnight later, on Friday the 13th, we arrived in the British Virgin Islands by a full moon, glimpsing a dark ocean dotted with islands through tropical sea mist.
Banners supporting him are dotted round the Bernabéu.
Upstairs in a lecture hall, and dotted around nearby classrooms, fellow students are curled up on the floor asleep.
And there are stickers dotted round their training ground declaring: "love Rayo, hate racism", alongside a picture of one of their best-loved players, tragically killed in a car crash in 1989 just after helping them clinch promotion to the first division.
Up and down the main street of Lampedusa's town centre, a pleasant promenade dotted with pavement cafes and tourist shops, the stories of those deaths – and people who survived – are everywhere.
Shoreditch was, and remains, an area notorious for drinking and disorder, a maze of alleys dotted with marshy fields, rank with crime and the haunt of actors and musicians.
Dotted between the coconut palms are 38 rooms and suites in semi-detached cottages and two-storey units.
The area remains underpopulated, and car ownership is low, so the A9 is mostly empty for the last 100km, running north through a landscape dotted with sugar palms.
