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Day 23 – R&R + more strange encounters.

Hello everyone. Skipped a few days since the last blog however all it has really been is admin time and looking around the inner town of Puebla. They have a nice weekend market here that everyone goes out to and in general it’s quite a chill town.

It’s now Monday and I have decided to extend my stay here for another week until the 13th as I had been on the road For 3 weeks plus been a crazy 2 back home before I got going so batteries were drained and I needed to rest up before going further.

Next few days go by rather uneventfully, I just chill then Sunday rolls round. Had been a quiet day so far then night comes. I do the usual thing and head out for a wander but then a big downpour comes and I end up in this place on the zócalo square. Nice enough little bar and chat to a few people, first an older American geezer in a Spanish school here. Chatted swapped details might see each other later. 

He then left and got to chatting with another local, this guy was interesting as after some talking he turned out he was off duty private security for a kid of some high profile politician who’s in one of the unis here and Sunday and Monday is rest day there. I don’t know if it’s true or not but I’ve met enough squaddies to think he was for real.

Anyways this place closes up and we go to another place and we get drinking some more but now it’s getting quite late and while I’m not getting overly sketched out I kind of wanted to call it while we weren’t too far from the gaffe while he clearly wanted to keep going. 

He ends up chatting to this kid and some other blokes and kind of ignores me. At this point I drink up and take the opportunity to go and quietly pay my half of the tab and get out and quickly head back to the gaffe. Bit of a weird one as didn’t feel overly uncomfortable but had that feeling things could have turned shady on a sixpence if I stayed or he wanted to go somewhere else again after – I Felt worse around that other guy in Salamanca to be fair. Did I handle this right you be the judge? Another one from Simon was you have to be open to trust people however its always a double edged sword – If you trust too much you can get into trouble and if you trust too little you miss out on lots of experiences and possibly could miss your next big break in life!! I’d like to think I’ve got the baseline reasonably okay all things considered. End of the day I’m here on my own and nobody is coming to bail me out if I mess up so yes I might be a little standoffish!!
I don’t know what it is but I always seem to meet people on the crazier side of the spectrum? Do I just have this aura about me? No idea. Any spiritual types following who can chime in?