Thank you Mum, Sophie and Kathy for your instant responses to my slightly bossy latest blog, I appreciate your comments and its just lovely to hear from you all and maybe easiest this way, but I also love emails too (sorry am being bossy again)
Well, Im sat here in my lovely room in Antigua which over looks 3 volcanos, and one must be active as Age and I saw black smoke eeking out of it only 30min ago, hope this is normal and safe...?
Im sipping on a lovely glass of red wine while writing this, and actually it is part medicinal, as I think I have a trapped nerve in my neck from sleeping funny about 4 nights ago, bit painful and gives me a slightly achey head constantly, so I may aswell add fuzziness to the mix with a little red wine. Age has rubbed something called Bengay into it, this seems to help but the name is a little off putting!
Anyway, you wil be glad to hear that we have FINALLY made a decision about what to do net and how to do it. We have booked our flight from San Jose (Costa Rica) to Bogota (Columbia) on the 30th Jan, between now and then the plan is to hop on a chicken bus tomorrow, head to Guatemala City with a yumi pack lunch in hand, the bakeries round here are Amazing, jam packed with freshly baked treats which will silver line any long bus journey. The journey will take us to San Salvador for which I will be Ages tour guide as it will be my 3rd time there too and I kind of no my way around. Then hop skip and a jump to Nicaragua where I hope we will find a tranquil beach to bask on and discover the Nicaraguan local tasty street food, then 1 more bus ride to Costa Rica. Idealy I´d love to work on a market produce organic farm for a week, ive discovered this great webiste with lots of participating farms on there, so, time permitting, and farms willing to accept a friendly, chubby but hard working english girl and chubby, chatty, kind of hard working Canadian, Italian, Sommersetian mix of a boy then we will be set and super happy to set our minds and bodies to something worthwhile for a week. I do feel I need a bit of purpose other than just seeing amazing places. A bit of hard graft and learning some new skills and with a chance to be submerged in a spanish speaking local environment would be fantsastic plus the added benefit of it being a great work out and a novel way to shift those Christmas pounds! But whether this happens in the next week or once we get to South America, it is just a really lovely idea and a great oppurtunity, I WILL make I happen.
Well, we are leaving after our wonderful complementary breakfast in the morning so I must put down my glass, switch off the hallmark channel so I can concentrate rather than watching yet another cheesy film and pack my back, yet again, for probably the 110th time on this trip, so all that leaves us to do this evening is go out for a fantasticaly tasty meal at a little restaurant we´ve spied not too far away where I have my eye on, what I hope will be, fingers crossed, mouth watering homemade pumpkin ravioli in a creamy herb sauce or shrimp & lobster rissotto ahhhh mmmmm .........
Buenos noches Amigos y Gracias por leer me blog xxx
Catie, Catie, Catie you amaze me your blog, always full of lovley stories of food, food, food and of course a LITTLE drink here and there, glad to hear that you are both eating well and not in danger of wasting away. BenGay is a great muscle relaxant I remember it well, if you can find it in a market somewhere get a little tub of Tiger Balm that is really good. Hope your bus trip goes well as for working on a local farm, ha ha we'll see, I wait with bated breath. Love to you both, looking forward to some more pics. Kathy
ReplyDeleteAge? Hard-working? You're having a laugh aren't you?
ReplyDeleteI'm so jealous, sounds amazing. Enjoy your time down on the farm.
Much love x