Denouement Diaries - Week 16

Essentially the ramblings of two adults that probably require adult supervision.

As usual, follow along at:

Anyway, let's get into it:

Slept in
Very vegetative day
Cooked up some breakfast then wandered to the cool cafe we found yesterday
Had a pile of coffees and the nice guy running the place gave us a free feed of some local Costa Rican snacks
Wandered back over to the apartment to do some more booking - got some more flights sorted
Finished 'Skyfall' - have started looking for Scottish Manor Homes to purchase
In the afternoon, Casey did some dancing in the cool room on the roof
Then sent her along to her last Costa Rican pole class
Picked her up and came back to our suburb where we went for dinner at a Harry Potter themed restaurant - was fun

Very chilled out day
Wandered up the road and had some french toast for breakfast
Got an Uber down into town because we were determined to have a coffee in the cafe of the Teatro Nacional
Acquired some strapping tape to try and fix Casey's broken pole heels
Finished off some booking through North America and a flight to Europe - means the next month or so is looking nice and organised
Had some burgers...then churros...delivered

Travel day
Woke up easy then did a bit of packing
Wandered down into the neighbourhood to find somewhere for breakfast
Found a cafe that served breakfast
Casey ordered some weird cheese pancake then was surprised when it was squishy and tasteless…
Back to the apartment
Finished packing then downstairs to hand over our keycard and order an Uber
Again - South American traffic
Took nearly an hour to go the 17ish km to the airport
Did the usual dance of hassle when you ask the airline to check you in - “do you have your boarding pass?” - “no that’s your job give me my boarding pass etc”
Through immigration
Found a cafe to sit and wait
Then to the gate
Short east flight
And easily through Salvadoran immigration
Heaps of people offering cabs out the front door
The price was what our Airbnb host had said
Into a cab
Then about 40 mins to the beach
Got to El Tunco
Wasn’t really sure of the landmarks for where to find our place
But I recognised the paint colour when we just stumbled across it
Went for a walk down to the beach - not the best swim beach, very rocky and about 6-10ft swell - heaps out surfing though, probably a bit beyond us…
Lifeguards here just screech whistles at people - no idea what they mean…
Went to a beachfront bar thing playing good music for easy dinner - choripan
Frozen yoghurt for dessert
Watched ‘Lilo and Stitch’ - beach theme

Sleep in
I went and had a coffee and a snack before Casey woke up
She joined me and had some breakfast and more coffees
Such hot weather
We got a smoothie each after breakfast but I was dying in the heat so went and bought a singlet
Sunscreened up
Casey had a dip at the beach then we went to a beach pool/bar thing that we had rights to because of the Airbnb we were staying at
Had a swim
Sat on the top balcony overlooking the surf and had some sweet fizzy drinks and read
In the afternoon went and sat at another beach bar thing where there was a bit of a craft stall set up
Had some lunch and people watched
Sat on the beach for a little bit with some frappes
Back to the room to cool down in the air conditioning
Casey went off to a yoga class
Then we went for dinner to get some Bao
Frozen yoghurt for dessert of course
And I watched ‘Blood and Gold’ while casey watched a UK Pole Theatre competition

Realistically, we bummed around at the beach for a few days
We met a couple of groups of American guys - one group from San Francisco and another couple of fellas from Georgia - all a good bunch
We swam and bodysurfed
Casey did some Yoga
We watched some movies in the night - more James Bond (Spectre because we are going to Mexico next)
We ate good food
And watched some of the ISA Olympic Qualifiers
Would recommend

Stay tuned...