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So having cried off work on Tuesday I rocked up on Wednesday ready to make the kids learn even more than usual (yes that is practically nothing, but i do try!!) only to discover that they had been told not to come in because they thought I would still be ill! So went out for dinner with Hannah at a very mediocre restaurant called Sutra (quite similar to that Turkish place in London lau, but the food just DIDN´T measure up, at all!!) Ohh well! On to a bar for happy hour, which lasts from 6 til 10, definitely my kind of happy hour!! Played some very bad pool before being joined by a few locals who put us to shame! Good practice for the Spanish, but it involves such concentration, which just doesnt happen when drunk, so was very hard work!! Nevermind! Got a few salsa lessons off the locals too, althou they didnt seem to keen to dance when Maximo Park came on! lol! Was good fun! Although its quite handy being able to feign not understanding when they are blatantly hitting on u, telling u that they like you and do you like them, will you write
every day from england etc etc!! Haha, yes of course I will, not!! Anyway, we ran away quite scared in the end at about 12.30!
Thursday Steve & I headed down to the beach on a bumpy night bus, not without being hit on by yet another taxi driver, who incidentally turned out to be somewhat dodgy- first he wanted my number so i could teach him english (even tho his wife was bi-lingual) and then we went through a police check and he was like "you are my friend" " i am not a taxi" etc etc, was somewhat releived to get out, and then the git tried to charge me double what the fare should be...unimpressed!! Anyway, night bus was suprisingly okay, I have an ability to sleep absolutely anywhere, so the bus was fine, although they turned the air con off at someones request once we had descended from the andes, which makes so sense cos it was bloooody roasting! So i woke up for that, so damn hot!
We arrived into Bahia at about 7.30 in the morning, turned out Steve doesnt have my ability to sleep so the night had passed very slowly for
him!! From there we caught a boat across the bay to San Vincente, from which we caught a bus up the coast for 10mins to Canoa.
Words cant describe how amazing Canoa was, okay, so the most exotic beach I´ve seen is Barcelona, but omg, it was like a tropical island!! One "tarmac" road, the rest sandy tracks, palm trees everywhere, and everything was made of Bamboo!! I suppose it was to be expected, but I hadn´t really thought!! Ohh well! Checked into Hostel Katiuska, -private rooms for $6 each, and went on a walk around the village, took all of 10minutes, before heading for the beach! Beach was bearable until about 12 when the sun was just cruel! The sea was fantastic, its a proper surfing beach, so the waves were huge, muchos funos!
Lots of seafood for lunch- I was eating squid, octopus, sole and god knows what else!! But it tasted so good!!! Had an afternoon siesta before Happy hour (5pm to 6pm) at the most popular hostel- Bambu. Watched the sun go down over the sea, so very pretty, and so very smashed it must also be said!! Found some food, whereupon the girl
overchanged us, so dinner cost $5 between us, instead of $15!! Sweet!! To a bar on the beach, where the crazy man that owned it offered us some crazy drink for free.......Over-proofed rum that had been maturing for a year, with weed in.....Took your bloody mouth off! We ran away tp the sea and tipped away most of it while watching the waves, was a good night.
Woke up early on Saturday to meet Hannah off the nightbus (she had had to work on Friday) so took her on a quick tour before chilling out on the beach before the sun got really strong.....Changing back at the hostel we got a fright though, a HUGE bloody cockroach running around the edge of my room, too bloody fast to be killed, arghhh. Was not impressed......He popped his head up again later in the weekend, but he was too damn fast to be got!! ARGH!! Anyway, back out to the beach, chilled out there for a while, turns out Steve has pretty bad hangovers, so while I was fine, he was dying, excellent!!
Ate the national dish, Ceviche for lunch, which is basically different kinds of fish in lemon juice
with onions and herbs n who knows what else. Was nice, but somewhat vinagry, and we all know how I deteste vinegar! (hel!) So perhaps only the once!! Chilled out on the beach some more b4 happy hour at Bambu again, and dinner down the road, altho I wasnt quite so drunk......Back to the boat bar on the beach for some cocktails, where we met up with some American girls who Hannah had met on the bus down, got chatting and drinking, and soon enough they were asking the barman for his homebrew, whereupon they kept bringing round jugs of the stuff!!! Argh! One girl, Kimberley, was absolutely hammered and had no idea what she was doing, only 20 bless!! Lol! We went in the sea for a bit, absolutely soaked, sat around a camp fire while some local hippies played their drums and swung fire around. Very relaxed beachy night, until said American, Kimberley almost got us all in the shit with her drunkeness and fights almost kicked off! Finally found my way home at about 3.30 i think, only to find a man sitting outside our rooms in the hammock, with a shot gun....scared the sh$t out of
me! Why does he need a gun I ask you? Hmmmmm!
Woke up sunday feeling pretty rough, but primarily due to the lobster-state which I had taken on, rather than a hangover!! Damn the equatorial sun, its so damn powerful!! So lay around for a bit in bed before heading out to buy bus tickets home for sunday night, lunch, shopping on the stalls, a nap and happy hour at Bambu again....a very hard life you can see!!
Bus home was a little less comfortable due to it raining and a window being open, i got well and truly drenched!! Also left my earplugs in my bag above my head and my mp3 ran out of battery, damn it, so had the drivers terrible music banging out the entire way home!! Ohh welll!
Is a national holiday today (Tuesday) so am off for curry in town and then either to the Velorium (snakes) or to the old town, but apparantly it might be dangerous for us today cos we´re Gringos, and its some labour day or something!! Ohh well!!
Ciao, xxx
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