So delicious spag bol (naturally) but dodgy rice (thanks Nick!) and onto Mondo Taitu - The place to hang in Bocas apparrently! Had a few bebidas there and then found ourselves in this amazing club that had some sort of shipwreck in it. So the done thing is to jump into the shipwreck for fun- Nick also thought that catching the starfish at the bottom was all part of the game -which he successfully did. Me on the sideline very excited about the fact he had done it - was clearly shouting so loudly I didnt hear everyone else shouting "YOUR KILLING IT". The starfish died. Accident.
The next day - bit stuck to know what to do. All you do in Bocas is go to the beach...but which? There are so many! We decided that we would make our way to Wizard beach which was supposed to have the best surf and rent a "foamie" (totes down with the surf lingo now) and Nick was going to teach us how to surf. Foamie in tow, we made our way to where the boats are to take you to the various Islands. This is what I imagine walking through an Indian market may be like. EVERYONE approaches you, haggling prices bla bla bla. But apparently I have got my haggling down to a pretty fine art after looking at Robertos ID and threatening to call the police if he didnt pick us up, we were on our way!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW I have never seen a beach like it. There was no-one else there (possibly due to the lack of waves...) long sandy beach, behind us green jungle and infront crystal blue water. It felt like we were on shipwrecked. Totally amazing! The whole day I think we saw three people in total.
So we just chilled on the beach, a surf lesson without waves was interesting but from what little I did, I think I can safely say I am not going to be the next surfpro to come out of England - damn it!
Infact it was that good-a-beach we went back the next day...!
We just chilled out that evening and said goodbye to Nick at 6am as he was on a flight to San Jose... It was emotional. We spent the whole day crying so were too tired to do anything! OK not really we were just lazy and wanted to save money so hung out in the hostel with some kiwis. One of which had farted in my face the morning before and another that had been playing musical sex beds that night and app landed on mine everytime! (EUGH) But as we keep saying... all part of the experencia.
Next day F and I rented bikes and cycled our way to playa bluff.. buff...blufft? Who knew. After eventually finding the breaks off we went... The beach was nice but not as nice as Wizard but the waves were intense! Something about rip tides..? Cycled back in our bikins and felt like wed been transported back to the 60s or something on our vintage bikes with baskets on the front "totally rad man!".
Then to the bus station... 10hr ride to Panama City...Taxi to Airport.... 6hr wait and a very dodgy burger... On plane...2hrs later arrive in BOGOTA!
Hummmm...Bogota - not quite as cosmopolitan as the old lonely planet suggests but another experencia. Staying in a hostel and met three english girls who are a laff and other than that its too cold to move! Spent the evening drinking rum to keep us warm (of course) and yesterday we found some CULTURE...can you believe it? It is a church ontop of a huge mountain that looks over the whole of bogota (which by the way is mahoosive) and is meant to be the highlight. Not as much of a let down as the old canal but still not that great. The hilarity of it all was F and I have started doing a documentary and the theme up in this chuch was "gap yah" - of course, and within minuites of finishing fliming one of the girls we were with chundered EVERYWHAR! Haha...
(Apologies to those of slightly more maturity that I who wont know what I am talking about)
So that made the trip slightly more entertaining oh and meeting a Lama on our way down.
Today we are waiting to catch a bus to San Gil which is meant to be the sporting part of Colombia... sounds fab! Its a stopgap between us and Cartagena (which is a 20hr bus ride from here).
Hope all is well with everyone...keep commenting. Miss you all xxxxxxxx
Dearest Becky
ReplyDeleteJust caught up on the adventures of the Dancing Queen - sounds fun but scary (sorry gotta say that cos I'm a grown up - well sometimes)
All good in Arizona - I'm heading home tonight but I've already said goodbye to Rob as he had to fly off to LA at 5.30 this morning for his golf event. So they've kindly let me have my room for the whole day and I'm gonna spend most of it by the pool! It won't be as beautiful as one of your idyllic beaches but its warm and it won't be warm tomorrow!
We did City Hall last night which lived up to the usual cosmo and steak standard. Friday night we tried a new place in Cave Creek which was a 45 minute drive but deffo worth it - an amazing first class restaurant with lots of little appetisers and between course stuff which kept on coming - and the only proper fine dining resataurant I've ever been to in USA.
Everyone is well at home - I'm seeing Mike and G(23 weeks)this week and hopefully fitting in a catch up with Jen then am heading down to look at progress on Widemouth.
Keep in touch and stay safe
Everyone sends huge hugs to you
lots of love
Jacqui xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello! All sounds awesome! disappointed to hear that farting-in-faces is the rage all over the world. I have an image of you guys on your bikes with baskets - old school photo with a comic line, like on the front of a moonpig (mooooonpig, mooooooonpig, moooonpig dot com") card or something. I guess it could just say gap yah at the top.
ReplyDeleteIs it wrong that I laughed that the star fish died?
Not much to report here, can't compete with your fast-paced laying-on-beach-all-day action I'm afraid ;-)
Anyhooo, glad to hear that you are having a fabbo time - keep safe and lots of love from over here xxxxxxxxx