Wed 1428 on hostel terrace, voice typing this, er, I just had jumped forward a bit. I have no idea whether I actually could have got a wet Wednesday ticket, but as I think I waffled about last night, on reflection it's like, not a good idea. I mean, for what it's worth, it's not like everyone goes, like the 20-something guy, Ariel, that I met on Monday at the pool thing. He's like doing the Sam Blass tour, he's had a few heavy days, he's not doing wet Wednesday. It's not like it's a must-do. I'm really, I'm thinking like, even if we assumed I could have got a ticket, if I went today, I would have either, like, not been able to throw myself into it at all, because I'm worried about tomorrow morning, or I'd have been doing it and it would have maybe gone well, and then I have to leave and throw that away, or I might have been tempted to stay and screw tomorrow over, and I'm not staying on site. I mean, this hostel is not that far away, but, you know, it's, I could do it, but it's not ideal. It's like, I'm old now, but I'm not going to be significantly older in practical terms in a year or two, so if I was going to do it, I think the thing to do would be to come back, make sure you booked in advance, have nothing planned the next day, feel able to just go mildly wild and not worry about it and treat it like that. You know, as it is, the kite surfing is the priority, I'm feeling a bit tired as it is, I've had a couple of nights out, it's like, vague regrets and FOMO and shit, but really, for my current situation, even ignoring my age, quite frankly, given the kite surfing is the priority and I'm pushed for time and it's not just the cost of lessons, I'm also primarily dithering at this point about the marginal spending of more time on lessons, so the last thing I want to do is not have a lesson tomorrow. I've already agreed to have one, but I could have said no tomorrow or maybe I could cancel it, but that wastes a day, right, and time with respect to the kite surfing is the most precious bottlenecked commodity at the moment. The actual cost isn't negligible, but the marginal cost isn't a huge deal. Okay, so that's that. I do feel a bit bad, but, sodd it, I'm going to have a quiet afternoon, go back to Maria's for dinner, you know, whatever.
Just to be clear on this marginal time thing, like it's about spending time on the island so I can have lessons. You know, technically if I didn't have a lesson tomorrow, that's not spending time on lessons, but the bottleneck is time available on the trip, and how much other stuff has to be compressed to allow me to spend time here having lessons. So if I were to have tomorrow off because I expected to be massively hungover or something, that's a day that's been burned, not having lessons, so to speak. It's probably fairly obvious, but what the hell?
The lesson was actually quite good today, a bit strenuous. I did manage to ride more, I talked on the beach with the instructor about the foot positioning and stuff for the board and I've kind of got my head round to some extent the fact that you have to twist and make the board follow the direction of the kite by twisting your moving your right leg or twisting your belly sort of thing. That bloody core strength again, not that that was what we talked about. It wasn't brilliant but I did kind of sort of ride, I don't know how far it was but you know maybe 10-15 meters more than I've done before and with a bit more feeling of control even though it wasn't perfect. So I think yesterday felt a bit maybe dubious on the progress but today definitely felt like progress. I had a chat with the instructor about more lessons, it's all a bit waffly but my current thinking is that I could very well end up staying up to an including Sunday in part just because although it's probably fine with a private shuttle I really don't think leaving on Sunday is a great idea so I probably either leave on Saturday or I leave on Monday and although the cost isn't negligible if I stay on Sunday I probably might as well have a lesson. Anyway so it's probably between two and four, leaving on Monday is maybe a bit compressed for us the trip but it can be done and I think this is the most important point and I spoke to the instructor well of course he's not giving any guarantees. I'm kind of getting him, I said two more lessons to him I didn't want to say four and give him ideas, it feels like there's a fair possibility of me getting sort of a controlled semi-repeatable not falling off ride within the next two lessons so you know it feels like that's something that would cap this whole kitesurfing session off nicely whether I resume in future or not be a lot more satisfying than well I was on the cusp of riding and it didn't seem like it was impossible for me but I just had no time or I thought I'd better clear off on the off chance something more fun happened so that's where we are my current thinking is I will probably book somewhere to stay another two nights maybe here maybe somewhere else I will take it from there and then maybe do another one or two lessons on top of that probably unless things are really really on the cusp of some sort of breakthrough or I'm feeling really down about not having broken through probably I am leaving on Monday at the latest anyway that's that's the current set-up there
At the end of the lesson, I crashed the kite after a, not in a terrible way, the instructor didn't seem to upset, but it was not working at this point, I don't think I was too bad about it, but I was a bit worried. The instructor did explain, roughly speaking, that, you know, every so many crashes the kite gives out and has to be patched up in some way that I don't understand, didn't ask about, and, like, it's just one of those luck things, because, you know, we might have packed it up if it hadn't crashed at that time, we were practically at the end of the lesson, we might have packed it up, and then the next person to fly it, they crash it, and it collapses, so it didn't feel too bad, what was a bit worse, although I don't really see that it was my fault, was earlier on in the lesson, my leash just disappeared, it had been clipped onto the kite at the start of a session, you know, when we'd gone up to the far end of the beach, the right end, no, to the left end, because we always talk about it from being out at water looking onto the beach, and I'd clipped it on just like normal, and then by the time I finished all the riding attempts and stuff, and got to the other end, the instructor came to meet me, and he was going to take the kite back, he was just about to start taking the kite and riding back, and I said, hold on, hold on, hold on, I haven't got a leash, and it just disappeared, no one made a big fuss about it, he went and got one, I happened to speak to the school owner, Jeremy, afterwards, and he was like, oh, I'm a bit sad about the leash, but not in an acuity, and he was like, I don't want to use the tree way, I didn't offer to pay for it, because I didn't want to stir things up, to my mind, I mean, if they asked me to pay, I didn't pay today, you know, I asked, and he said, no, no, we'll let it ride another day, so if it comes up when we're paying, I may be offered to pay half, or if they say something, if they insist, I just pay the lot, according to quick web search, it's about $60 for one, so it's not the end of the world, we don't really have any formal agreements, I don't think there's any insurance in place for this sort of thing, but to my mind, it's like, I didn't do anything wrong, I didn't do anything wrong, I didn't do anything wrong, I didn't do anything wrong, I didn't do anything wrong, I didn't do anything wrong, I didn't do anything wrong, I didn't I'm using their gear under the supervision of their instructor, it's just one of those things, and I'm not volunteering to eat the cost, in case it sets a bad precedent or something, the owner was chatting to me about rebuilding a pump, and he virtually didn't actually shake my hand, because he showed me his palm was all dirty, but we did a sort of fist bump at the end, I don't think I'm in the shit for it, I mean, I may be on the hook for the cost, but I'm not volunteering, I said I was casually socially sorry, and I had no idea what happened, which is true, I've had a bit of a chat with Grok, but it's not particularly clear to me, how I would have lost the leash, I didn't pull the emergency release, nothing that bad was happening on a timescale, I could possibly have done that, and it wouldn't have been the right thing to do, of course, because you don't pull that release, hardly ever, like the first instructor told me in six years, he'd pulled it once, the other release, on the power lines themselves, is a bit more commonly used, but I've never done that on purpose either, so far, anyway, and even if I'd pulled that lever, there would be bits of the two halves of the cord, I don't know how it works, but the leash would release, but not be lost, so I don't know what happened, I don't think it's my fault, if it was an accident, it's not entirely clear to me that I should be on the hook, but I'm not going to get too worked up about it.
Just renewed for tonight for 350.
Looking at booking for next two nights, zopilote only has a private on hostelworld at silly price. Nowhere novel and potentially tiall social reallhas any availability.
So after the lesson I tried to have a coffee at them what's it but they were shut because reasons I guess so I went and got some cash out, a Barclaycard not working but you
know even though I topped it up yesterday it just said insufficient funds so fuck that I had to get $400 out on the chase which slightly increases the per dollar fee but can't be helped and I got some coke and a Tonya Michelada and a packet of Chicharon and went and had that at the beach and a long call with mom and then I went and had a coffee at Maria's and picked up my laundry and then I came over here picking up a big Tonya not big 473mm at the little shop just outside the private road leading down that shop has a name but pleasingly also signed an English that just says small store on it which had seen before that's kind of cool that was 50 for the Tonya so I had that on the terrace here and I did a quick check on my flight seat booking which as far as I can tell is fine and I'm sitting here voice typing this and as I say I've just extended so that's kind of where we are at the moment
So looking on both booking and hostel world it's like there's certainly rooms available I'm almost sorry I could go to Maria's or Santa Cruz for example, there are options but nothing, Raindance has no availability I'm not sure I want to go anyway but they have no availability for two nights starting tomorrow night, the only mildly potentially social place is SES Mitiera and Balgue but like it's a private room which is nice but it's like 11 quid a night or something it's not terrible by any means but it's like a really long walk it's an extra half hours walk every morning I know it's only two days but it's not like it would be mega socializer I don't think based on the reviews it's more that there is there's a terrace and it's just mixing things up a bit but I'm not overly desperate
Poking around, it's like if we assume I stay somewhere else Thursday night, if I look for availability Friday and Saturday nights, which is already maybe overbooking my stay, like I could get into rain down, so they don't have a huge selection, they have like two dorm beds across the whole hostel, and I've no idea, it's probably not the same kind of dorm I've been in, but I guess they all have the mosquito net, or I could get into zapulotti in a cheap dorm, or that one in Balgue, although I probably don't want to, or Maria or Santa Cruz, bit torn, bit torn, I mean of course if I don't book these soon they're not going to go anywhere, it would be nice in a way if I'm here to go to the pizza night at zapulotti for the fourth time on Saturday, but then again if I'm here on Saturday and potentially staying at rain dance, which I'm not sure I do want to do, I could maybe go to their Latino night on Saturday, which might be a bit of a party, on the other hand of course I've still, if I'm here on Saturday I probably have a lesson or a ferry the next morning, very early, so I don't want to go crazy, but I don't think their Saturday night thing is that big, to be honest I seem to think when I came out of zapulotti on Saturday last night, rain dance didn't look like it was particularly heaving or busy, and that was at 10 o'clock or whatever, so you would really expect any kind of party to still be going on. I need to make a decision now in the next hour or so, but let me mull it over a bit now I've talked to myself about it like that.
1610 okay, being really trying to decide, and poking around with accommodation, and the high demand, the relative limited selection, and the fact that it's not super clear when I'm leaving because it kind of depends on how the surfing goes, is all really confusing. Basically, I'm not sure this is for the best, and part of this is just booking, because I could. I've booked for Saturday and Sunday nights at Zopilote with free cancellation up until the end of tomorrow, so at least I've got something locked in there. To be honest, it's feeling quite likely I'm going to be here till Monday, but we'll see how it goes, that gives me an option. I've booked rain dance, not cancellable, for Friday night. It's virtually certain I'm going to do at least two more lessons, and therefore won't be leaving until Saturday morning. Even if tomorrow's lesson goes astonishingly well, I would want another lesson to try to muscle memory, build it up, and enjoy myself. So, no harm booking that for Friday. There's some limited social possibility, maybe I'll just be bold and sit at the bar and chat, and there's also the Playa Mango's tour. I could take my swimming gear this time, perhaps, and then the casino night, maybe, if it happens. I've also booked an air-conditioned dorm. It was an extra three quid, and I figured it'd be an experiment. I haven't booked anything for tomorrow night yet. I'm staying here tonight at Wayitas. For tomorrow night, I'm thinking, there is a camping thing just down the road, this is the next place down from this, you walk past it to get here. But it's like 16-odd quid for the one night, and my gut feeling is that I could probably stay here, but I probably won't, although I've not decided yet. I could just go back to Santa Cruz. It would be cool to go back there. I could have one night there. I'm sure I could just walk over there now, even if I wanted and ask them about a room for tomorrow night. Or I could wing it, they generally seem to have space. I could also go to Maria's, but she did say something, I'd just smile because I'd been surprised. It's like, oh, you stayed here one night and then you left me or something, but I'm not really sure. Anyway, so I don't actually have anything booked for tomorrow night yet, but I think there are options. Raindance is not doable tomorrow night, otherwise I probably would have done it. Zopilotti is doable tomorrow, but they only have a super expensive cabin, and for that matter, based on a sign of reception, they might have some really remote rooms that you can only book at their reception, but I don't particularly want to do that. I would probably have done raindance for two nights if I could, but it's fine. Umm...
I think as of right now I could get into rain down to Saturday and Sunday nights if I wanted but it's not cancelable and there is a chance that I won't be here also while they have their Latin night and Saturday it might even be open to the public, I don't think it's like Wednesday and I'm not sure it suits me but it might do but technically speaking I could be at Zoppolotti and go across probably to their Latin night although I must admit my gut feeling is unless Friday night there goes really well I'd rather do the pizza night at Zoppolotti but so I could at least at this moment I think it cancels up a lotty and booking at raindance on Saturday and Sunday nights but I think to be honest it's better to keep the flexibles up a lotty, I would like to go and stay back there a bit as well, and it would be nice to be staying on site for the Saturday night if I do their pizza but it's not a big deal, anyway, it's 16.17 now, I haven't showered a change, I'm a bit sweaty but it's fine, I think I'm going to go into town, maybe have a coke on the beach, eat at Maria's, just maybe speak to Santa Cruz, although probably not, I'll probably wing it, and then I'll come back and maybe have a go. I don't think I'm going to be able to go for a walk, I'm going to go for a walk. watch a bit of YouTube or something. Okay, anyway, I'm gonna go.
1903 back at the hostel, so I did go out, wandered down to the beach via Ocean Market where I broke a 20 and got a Tonya Limonizal and a bottle of Big Cola, something local, because there was no sugar free anyway. They don't seem to replenish the Coke Zero supplies all that often. I went and sat on the beach wall where I normally sit, and it was fine. I went to eat at Maria's, which was surprisingly busy. A couple of tables of fairly young people, one of them. I was listening to the conversation. To be fair, they all seemed alright. I mean, I can only assume they're all here for wet Wednesday and that people don't go for the three o'clock stuff so much. I did see it a bit this afternoon as I was walking past at various points. I think I saw some people playing beer pong, and it looked moderately lively on the walk back just now. I'm just joking and it's probably a Woodhouse thing that he says all the time but I was looking in a little bit like Perry at the Gates of Paradise there was some bloke hanging around I don't know if he was checking wristbands or something but he made it kind of awkward for me to really have a good look it looked okay but it didn't look like oh my god absolutely amazing but of course it's all about the experience anyway so yeah I it was I was sweating in Maria's it just felt really hot I hadn't had a shower so I the ginger kittens trying to play with me which is nice so I went I was sweating like crazy and I came back and I had a shower first to take my towel in but not the end of the world and had a shave and then I popped back out after dark just to the end of this path to the small shop which I think is miscellaneous Diego but I'm not sure and I got a 473 Miltonia and somewhat different local cola just a small bottle for an extra bonus I mean it's already gone seven so I'll probably go to bed about nine there was another guy in the dorm at the lockers when I went in just now we said hi I don't think it was the Newcastle guy we exchanged so few words it was hard to clock the accent but he had a vaguely Germany sounding English voice yeah I think that's that so I'm gonna have this beer now I haven't booked any accommodation for tomorrow night yet but I'm not too worried about that as I said everything else is booked from earlier
hey it's FOMO or what but it's like oh I should have gone to the party or I should have done this or I shouldn't have spent so much time kitesurfing and such money I should have done more but you can't do everything it's not I have to save my energy and you know I think the kitesurfing is cool and fingers crossed it will work out okay and you know it is what it is I'm just noting it the the owner type chap here asked me earlier just casually it was chatting to me a little bit he says are you going to the party and I said told him about the kitesurfing and being up early and having to prioritize that it is vaguely interesting that he didn't look at me and think oh this guy's too old to obviously go you know so anyway just to note I'm sitting here trying to finish the first chapter of Cien Anjos de Solitude which would be a bit of a milestone
1925 centipede, about 2 inches long, just sort of zoomed up near my feet. I mean, I've taken a photo of it, there's no scale on that, that's what I'm saying, it's about 2 inches. It's just sitting there, I've got my feet in the air, it's like I'm not actively scared of it, but I don't want to run it on my leg, do I? I don't know if it's dangerous or capable of giving me a painful bite or something. Anyway, maybe the cattle will come and hunt it at some point. There's a few sort of gecko things running around on the wall. Anyway, just a quick note.
1940 just finished the first chapter, I'm gonna stop it there. Erm, the guy, buendia, is it, has just touched the ice with the giant guarding it, I think that's the end of the first chapter. The centipede went away, the cat is round, it's hunting something, there's quite a lot of sort of flies and vague, mosquito-y things around. It's not that late, obviously, but to be honest, I'm still drinking my beer that I picked up, but I might move towards bed before 9. I mean, it's fine, don't get me wrong. Er, I'm not super tired, but I am a bit tired, I mean, I don't know whether it's cumulative or whatever, but er, you know, anyway, it is what it is.
1943 class at 8.15, not absolutely amazing, but what can you do?
1956 been hearing some familiar music, and I think just some applause, and there is a fire show at Wednesday, and I'm fairly sure that's what's happening now, because I recognise this music from the guys who perform at, er, whatchamacallit, bloody hell, the pizza thing at Zoppilotti. No, that's quite cool, not a problem, I'm just saying that, yeah, I'm fairly sure it's the same music.
2031 ok, I am moving towards bed. I probably need to be up at fucking 6, 615 at latest, given I need to pack (not a huge job but a few mins) and maybe check about leaving bag here or whether I should take it with me to santa Cruz for breakfast and risk having to leave it in kite school kit room during lesson if they have no rooms (but I would rather ask directly than go via booking com or whatever now, also lets me sleep on the decision as to where to stay) plus these little chats will eat into time as well and I always seem tkbe just a tiny bit tight.
I feel sweaty even out here in short sleeve t shirt and flip flops and trousers and suspec tit will be hot in room even with poorly placed fan.
But yes, let's move towards bed, not really any point staying up.
Just to be clear on this marginal time thing, like it's about spending time on the island so I can have lessons. You know, technically if I didn't have a lesson tomorrow, that's not spending time on lessons, but the bottleneck is time available on the trip, and how much other stuff has to be compressed to allow me to spend time here having lessons. So if I were to have tomorrow off because I expected to be massively hungover or something, that's a day that's been burned, not having lessons, so to speak. It's probably fairly obvious, but what the hell?
The lesson was actually quite good today, a bit strenuous. I did manage to ride more, I talked on the beach with the instructor about the foot positioning and stuff for the board and I've kind of got my head round to some extent the fact that you have to twist and make the board follow the direction of the kite by twisting your moving your right leg or twisting your belly sort of thing. That bloody core strength again, not that that was what we talked about. It wasn't brilliant but I did kind of sort of ride, I don't know how far it was but you know maybe 10-15 meters more than I've done before and with a bit more feeling of control even though it wasn't perfect. So I think yesterday felt a bit maybe dubious on the progress but today definitely felt like progress. I had a chat with the instructor about more lessons, it's all a bit waffly but my current thinking is that I could very well end up staying up to an including Sunday in part just because although it's probably fine with a private shuttle I really don't think leaving on Sunday is a great idea so I probably either leave on Saturday or I leave on Monday and although the cost isn't negligible if I stay on Sunday I probably might as well have a lesson. Anyway so it's probably between two and four, leaving on Monday is maybe a bit compressed for us the trip but it can be done and I think this is the most important point and I spoke to the instructor well of course he's not giving any guarantees. I'm kind of getting him, I said two more lessons to him I didn't want to say four and give him ideas, it feels like there's a fair possibility of me getting sort of a controlled semi-repeatable not falling off ride within the next two lessons so you know it feels like that's something that would cap this whole kitesurfing session off nicely whether I resume in future or not be a lot more satisfying than well I was on the cusp of riding and it didn't seem like it was impossible for me but I just had no time or I thought I'd better clear off on the off chance something more fun happened so that's where we are my current thinking is I will probably book somewhere to stay another two nights maybe here maybe somewhere else I will take it from there and then maybe do another one or two lessons on top of that probably unless things are really really on the cusp of some sort of breakthrough or I'm feeling really down about not having broken through probably I am leaving on Monday at the latest anyway that's that's the current set-up there
At the end of the lesson, I crashed the kite after a, not in a terrible way, the instructor didn't seem to upset, but it was not working at this point, I don't think I was too bad about it, but I was a bit worried. The instructor did explain, roughly speaking, that, you know, every so many crashes the kite gives out and has to be patched up in some way that I don't understand, didn't ask about, and, like, it's just one of those luck things, because, you know, we might have packed it up if it hadn't crashed at that time, we were practically at the end of the lesson, we might have packed it up, and then the next person to fly it, they crash it, and it collapses, so it didn't feel too bad, what was a bit worse, although I don't really see that it was my fault, was earlier on in the lesson, my leash just disappeared, it had been clipped onto the kite at the start of a session, you know, when we'd gone up to the far end of the beach, the right end, no, to the left end, because we always talk about it from being out at water looking onto the beach, and I'd clipped it on just like normal, and then by the time I finished all the riding attempts and stuff, and got to the other end, the instructor came to meet me, and he was going to take the kite back, he was just about to start taking the kite and riding back, and I said, hold on, hold on, hold on, I haven't got a leash, and it just disappeared, no one made a big fuss about it, he went and got one, I happened to speak to the school owner, Jeremy, afterwards, and he was like, oh, I'm a bit sad about the leash, but not in an acuity, and he was like, I don't want to use the tree way, I didn't offer to pay for it, because I didn't want to stir things up, to my mind, I mean, if they asked me to pay, I didn't pay today, you know, I asked, and he said, no, no, we'll let it ride another day, so if it comes up when we're paying, I may be offered to pay half, or if they say something, if they insist, I just pay the lot, according to quick web search, it's about $60 for one, so it's not the end of the world, we don't really have any formal agreements, I don't think there's any insurance in place for this sort of thing, but to my mind, it's like, I didn't do anything wrong, I didn't do anything wrong, I didn't do anything wrong, I didn't do anything wrong, I didn't do anything wrong, I didn't do anything wrong, I didn't do anything wrong, I didn't I'm using their gear under the supervision of their instructor, it's just one of those things, and I'm not volunteering to eat the cost, in case it sets a bad precedent or something, the owner was chatting to me about rebuilding a pump, and he virtually didn't actually shake my hand, because he showed me his palm was all dirty, but we did a sort of fist bump at the end, I don't think I'm in the shit for it, I mean, I may be on the hook for the cost, but I'm not volunteering, I said I was casually socially sorry, and I had no idea what happened, which is true, I've had a bit of a chat with Grok, but it's not particularly clear to me, how I would have lost the leash, I didn't pull the emergency release, nothing that bad was happening on a timescale, I could possibly have done that, and it wouldn't have been the right thing to do, of course, because you don't pull that release, hardly ever, like the first instructor told me in six years, he'd pulled it once, the other release, on the power lines themselves, is a bit more commonly used, but I've never done that on purpose either, so far, anyway, and even if I'd pulled that lever, there would be bits of the two halves of the cord, I don't know how it works, but the leash would release, but not be lost, so I don't know what happened, I don't think it's my fault, if it was an accident, it's not entirely clear to me that I should be on the hook, but I'm not going to get too worked up about it.
Just renewed for tonight for 350.
Looking at booking for next two nights, zopilote only has a private on hostelworld at silly price. Nowhere novel and potentially tiall social reallhas any availability.
So after the lesson I tried to have a coffee at them what's it but they were shut because reasons I guess so I went and got some cash out, a Barclaycard not working but you
know even though I topped it up yesterday it just said insufficient funds so fuck that I had to get $400 out on the chase which slightly increases the per dollar fee but can't be helped and I got some coke and a Tonya Michelada and a packet of Chicharon and went and had that at the beach and a long call with mom and then I went and had a coffee at Maria's and picked up my laundry and then I came over here picking up a big Tonya not big 473mm at the little shop just outside the private road leading down that shop has a name but pleasingly also signed an English that just says small store on it which had seen before that's kind of cool that was 50 for the Tonya so I had that on the terrace here and I did a quick check on my flight seat booking which as far as I can tell is fine and I'm sitting here voice typing this and as I say I've just extended so that's kind of where we are at the moment
So looking on both booking and hostel world it's like there's certainly rooms available I'm almost sorry I could go to Maria's or Santa Cruz for example, there are options but nothing, Raindance has no availability I'm not sure I want to go anyway but they have no availability for two nights starting tomorrow night, the only mildly potentially social place is SES Mitiera and Balgue but like it's a private room which is nice but it's like 11 quid a night or something it's not terrible by any means but it's like a really long walk it's an extra half hours walk every morning I know it's only two days but it's not like it would be mega socializer I don't think based on the reviews it's more that there is there's a terrace and it's just mixing things up a bit but I'm not overly desperate
Poking around, it's like if we assume I stay somewhere else Thursday night, if I look for availability Friday and Saturday nights, which is already maybe overbooking my stay, like I could get into rain down, so they don't have a huge selection, they have like two dorm beds across the whole hostel, and I've no idea, it's probably not the same kind of dorm I've been in, but I guess they all have the mosquito net, or I could get into zapulotti in a cheap dorm, or that one in Balgue, although I probably don't want to, or Maria or Santa Cruz, bit torn, bit torn, I mean of course if I don't book these soon they're not going to go anywhere, it would be nice in a way if I'm here to go to the pizza night at zapulotti for the fourth time on Saturday, but then again if I'm here on Saturday and potentially staying at rain dance, which I'm not sure I do want to do, I could maybe go to their Latino night on Saturday, which might be a bit of a party, on the other hand of course I've still, if I'm here on Saturday I probably have a lesson or a ferry the next morning, very early, so I don't want to go crazy, but I don't think their Saturday night thing is that big, to be honest I seem to think when I came out of zapulotti on Saturday last night, rain dance didn't look like it was particularly heaving or busy, and that was at 10 o'clock or whatever, so you would really expect any kind of party to still be going on. I need to make a decision now in the next hour or so, but let me mull it over a bit now I've talked to myself about it like that.
1610 okay, being really trying to decide, and poking around with accommodation, and the high demand, the relative limited selection, and the fact that it's not super clear when I'm leaving because it kind of depends on how the surfing goes, is all really confusing. Basically, I'm not sure this is for the best, and part of this is just booking, because I could. I've booked for Saturday and Sunday nights at Zopilote with free cancellation up until the end of tomorrow, so at least I've got something locked in there. To be honest, it's feeling quite likely I'm going to be here till Monday, but we'll see how it goes, that gives me an option. I've booked rain dance, not cancellable, for Friday night. It's virtually certain I'm going to do at least two more lessons, and therefore won't be leaving until Saturday morning. Even if tomorrow's lesson goes astonishingly well, I would want another lesson to try to muscle memory, build it up, and enjoy myself. So, no harm booking that for Friday. There's some limited social possibility, maybe I'll just be bold and sit at the bar and chat, and there's also the Playa Mango's tour. I could take my swimming gear this time, perhaps, and then the casino night, maybe, if it happens. I've also booked an air-conditioned dorm. It was an extra three quid, and I figured it'd be an experiment. I haven't booked anything for tomorrow night yet. I'm staying here tonight at Wayitas. For tomorrow night, I'm thinking, there is a camping thing just down the road, this is the next place down from this, you walk past it to get here. But it's like 16-odd quid for the one night, and my gut feeling is that I could probably stay here, but I probably won't, although I've not decided yet. I could just go back to Santa Cruz. It would be cool to go back there. I could have one night there. I'm sure I could just walk over there now, even if I wanted and ask them about a room for tomorrow night. Or I could wing it, they generally seem to have space. I could also go to Maria's, but she did say something, I'd just smile because I'd been surprised. It's like, oh, you stayed here one night and then you left me or something, but I'm not really sure. Anyway, so I don't actually have anything booked for tomorrow night yet, but I think there are options. Raindance is not doable tomorrow night, otherwise I probably would have done it. Zopilotti is doable tomorrow, but they only have a super expensive cabin, and for that matter, based on a sign of reception, they might have some really remote rooms that you can only book at their reception, but I don't particularly want to do that. I would probably have done raindance for two nights if I could, but it's fine. Umm...
I think as of right now I could get into rain down to Saturday and Sunday nights if I wanted but it's not cancelable and there is a chance that I won't be here also while they have their Latin night and Saturday it might even be open to the public, I don't think it's like Wednesday and I'm not sure it suits me but it might do but technically speaking I could be at Zoppolotti and go across probably to their Latin night although I must admit my gut feeling is unless Friday night there goes really well I'd rather do the pizza night at Zoppolotti but so I could at least at this moment I think it cancels up a lotty and booking at raindance on Saturday and Sunday nights but I think to be honest it's better to keep the flexibles up a lotty, I would like to go and stay back there a bit as well, and it would be nice to be staying on site for the Saturday night if I do their pizza but it's not a big deal, anyway, it's 16.17 now, I haven't showered a change, I'm a bit sweaty but it's fine, I think I'm going to go into town, maybe have a coke on the beach, eat at Maria's, just maybe speak to Santa Cruz, although probably not, I'll probably wing it, and then I'll come back and maybe have a go. I don't think I'm going to be able to go for a walk, I'm going to go for a walk. watch a bit of YouTube or something. Okay, anyway, I'm gonna go.
1903 back at the hostel, so I did go out, wandered down to the beach via Ocean Market where I broke a 20 and got a Tonya Limonizal and a bottle of Big Cola, something local, because there was no sugar free anyway. They don't seem to replenish the Coke Zero supplies all that often. I went and sat on the beach wall where I normally sit, and it was fine. I went to eat at Maria's, which was surprisingly busy. A couple of tables of fairly young people, one of them. I was listening to the conversation. To be fair, they all seemed alright. I mean, I can only assume they're all here for wet Wednesday and that people don't go for the three o'clock stuff so much. I did see it a bit this afternoon as I was walking past at various points. I think I saw some people playing beer pong, and it looked moderately lively on the walk back just now. I'm just joking and it's probably a Woodhouse thing that he says all the time but I was looking in a little bit like Perry at the Gates of Paradise there was some bloke hanging around I don't know if he was checking wristbands or something but he made it kind of awkward for me to really have a good look it looked okay but it didn't look like oh my god absolutely amazing but of course it's all about the experience anyway so yeah I it was I was sweating in Maria's it just felt really hot I hadn't had a shower so I the ginger kittens trying to play with me which is nice so I went I was sweating like crazy and I came back and I had a shower first to take my towel in but not the end of the world and had a shave and then I popped back out after dark just to the end of this path to the small shop which I think is miscellaneous Diego but I'm not sure and I got a 473 Miltonia and somewhat different local cola just a small bottle for an extra bonus I mean it's already gone seven so I'll probably go to bed about nine there was another guy in the dorm at the lockers when I went in just now we said hi I don't think it was the Newcastle guy we exchanged so few words it was hard to clock the accent but he had a vaguely Germany sounding English voice yeah I think that's that so I'm gonna have this beer now I haven't booked any accommodation for tomorrow night yet but I'm not too worried about that as I said everything else is booked from earlier
hey it's FOMO or what but it's like oh I should have gone to the party or I should have done this or I shouldn't have spent so much time kitesurfing and such money I should have done more but you can't do everything it's not I have to save my energy and you know I think the kitesurfing is cool and fingers crossed it will work out okay and you know it is what it is I'm just noting it the the owner type chap here asked me earlier just casually it was chatting to me a little bit he says are you going to the party and I said told him about the kitesurfing and being up early and having to prioritize that it is vaguely interesting that he didn't look at me and think oh this guy's too old to obviously go you know so anyway just to note I'm sitting here trying to finish the first chapter of Cien Anjos de Solitude which would be a bit of a milestone
1925 centipede, about 2 inches long, just sort of zoomed up near my feet. I mean, I've taken a photo of it, there's no scale on that, that's what I'm saying, it's about 2 inches. It's just sitting there, I've got my feet in the air, it's like I'm not actively scared of it, but I don't want to run it on my leg, do I? I don't know if it's dangerous or capable of giving me a painful bite or something. Anyway, maybe the cattle will come and hunt it at some point. There's a few sort of gecko things running around on the wall. Anyway, just a quick note.
1940 just finished the first chapter, I'm gonna stop it there. Erm, the guy, buendia, is it, has just touched the ice with the giant guarding it, I think that's the end of the first chapter. The centipede went away, the cat is round, it's hunting something, there's quite a lot of sort of flies and vague, mosquito-y things around. It's not that late, obviously, but to be honest, I'm still drinking my beer that I picked up, but I might move towards bed before 9. I mean, it's fine, don't get me wrong. Er, I'm not super tired, but I am a bit tired, I mean, I don't know whether it's cumulative or whatever, but er, you know, anyway, it is what it is.
1943 class at 8.15, not absolutely amazing, but what can you do?
1956 been hearing some familiar music, and I think just some applause, and there is a fire show at Wednesday, and I'm fairly sure that's what's happening now, because I recognise this music from the guys who perform at, er, whatchamacallit, bloody hell, the pizza thing at Zoppilotti. No, that's quite cool, not a problem, I'm just saying that, yeah, I'm fairly sure it's the same music.
2031 ok, I am moving towards bed. I probably need to be up at fucking 6, 615 at latest, given I need to pack (not a huge job but a few mins) and maybe check about leaving bag here or whether I should take it with me to santa Cruz for breakfast and risk having to leave it in kite school kit room during lesson if they have no rooms (but I would rather ask directly than go via booking com or whatever now, also lets me sleep on the decision as to where to stay) plus these little chats will eat into time as well and I always seem tkbe just a tiny bit tight.
I feel sweaty even out here in short sleeve t shirt and flip flops and trousers and suspec tit will be hot in room even with poorly placed fan.
But yes, let's move towards bed, not really any point staying up.
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