We both wake up feeling more resigned than dejected. If the money has to be spent then it has to be spent. As this will eat away at our pot of ‘adventure money’ we will just have to do a couple more charters to pay for it. Mike goes off to the boatyard to give them the go ahead and returns saying that he has found us a nice hotel to stay in right on the beach not far from the boatyard. The hotel will take us to and pick us up from the boatyard each day so we will have no need for a hire car. Although the hotel is double the price of the guest house it is far more like luxury and without the expense of a car will work out vaguely the same. Except for food of course. The guest house was self catering and this is a hotel with hotel priced meals. Still we feel in need of a treat and Mike has decided that we should look upon the next couple of weeks as a sort of holiday.
Photo: Our guest house at Westerhall
We keep the hire car for an extra day and do a bit of food shopping and sightseeing. We have discovered these fabulous local meat pies. They are round and cut into triangles like pizza. They are actually breads stuffed full of either ham or soya, and actually the soya ones are the most delicious. One triangle feeds the two of us for one meal and they cost $4 EC, about £1 each. Not bad! Unfortunately the supermarket that stocks them isn’t walking distance from the boatyard.
Mike takes me to view our hotel, La Sagesse (website address is http://www.lasagesse.com ), which is also the site of a monkey nature reserve. It is beautiful, right on the beach. We are taken to view a couple of different rooms and choose one furthest away from everything else. It is set in its own little garden and is the one nearest to the beach. The waves crash just twenty feet away and we have total privacy.
We spend the evening back at the guest house munching our meat pie and watching ‘The Worst Week Of My Life’. Although about the lead up to a wedding, we think the title is quite apt!
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