Cooking however has been a bit more fun and we’ve been making use of local ingredients, figuring out which is the best veg stall – one with the good parrot, one with the bad parrot, one with the best papaya... Prizes for recipe suggestions with the following vegetables:
Fresh fruit is the absolute highlight of our diet here, breakfast looks like this every day (admittedly often with cake or toast on the side):
The last two Fridays have become ‘fast food Fridays’ which is probably not a habit we need to get in to, especially as the original theory of ‘everyone gets thin when they travel’ isn’t quite going to plan. Something to do with rum, cake and ice cream I suspect. Fast food Friday means lunch from the local street stalls, empanadas, other fried foods that we are yet to figure out the names of and ‘chicken and chips’ Caribbean style – aka plantain and bbq chicken. Yum. Oh and maybe a little home made ice cream from the bakery. Oh dear.
Alongside getting the most out of the cuisine (and the most use from elasticised waist bands) we’ve been taking advantage of the amazing things you can do here in your free time. Spanish always in our bags, often remaining so, we have enjoyed an amazing day on a catamaran – snorkelling and sailing were both amazing. I saw and held my first six legged starfish! Our ‘wow a freak of nature’ was probably more accurately described as a genetic anomaly by the captain/on board biologist! We also enjoyed diving for sand dollars and seeing a ray and small reef shark swimming together, oh and venturing in to the mangroves to see the absolute craziest underwater creatures – I can’t even start to describe them, well sort of giant shell-less snail shaped with tentacles all over.....okay no, can’t describe them!! We did get a little bitten, nothing to show for it but a weird sensation that the captain said was micro-organisms that were essentially eyeballs with claws – sort of the very start of a crab?! Okay a little crazy again!
This weekend we hired our very own water taxi, paid over the odds (must remember to haggle) and were picked up from a local dock and taken to Playa Wizard. The beach was totally amazing, very few people, a small sloth and amazing clear water. Heaven for the afternoon.
Sunday we seemed to be glued to the hammock again studying but did venture to the swimming hole opposite to cool down – it’s tough.
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