light sleep in but body clock not really cooperating. breakfast on the terrace was amazing...fresh mango, pawpaw, watermelon and pineapple. All chilled. 2 fried eggs and fresh bread! pawpw juice and gooood strong hot coffee with hot milk. what a way to start th day!
spent the day wandering round and getting to know the gridded streets. Immensely hot by lunchtime and another round of peso pizza (its too cheap to not have!) and this one remarkably better so am relieved to know they are not all bad! many many cokes and water we have discovered much of the old town and the wonderful wonderful old american cars. i thought it would be only the odd one here and there but so so so many; Chrysler dodge, ford, Chevrolet,. Some are beautifuly restored with the gutteral sound of a loved engine, while others are rusted and repainted in matte house paint. Masking tape holding together old leather interiors. so many colours! pink, ed, red and white, grey, black, green, hot pink, pale yellow, jade. so much fun trying to find a new colour or style.
The arcitecture is amazing as well and almost as colourful and in varying degrees of destruction as the cars. so beautiful and haunting with old rusted metal lae, high high grand ceilings and beautiful sculpture. I'm really no architect right! but awesome and can't help thinking that ithe city really would be so so so amazing if the buidling were restored and maintained.
Head to the commercial hub, verdado for drink, along the malecon, which is the promenade. Huge waves crashing against the rocks, and the salt spray so cooling! beer first on the menu and trying to find a decent looking place to eat a bit impossible. maybe we were too tired? back to the old town and i collapse in the first place. cheesy music but it has food and mojitos!
not too shabby after all.
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