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The view from the terrace bar at Hostel Viajero

iajeros y Duendes!

Hola hola! Got a fun one for you today! So we left off heading over to Hostel Viajero to have a drink and say ye or nay. So i rock up there and head up to the terrace bar. It’s pretty busy and the cervezas are flowing. It’s a ye from me to stick about here for a bit. I stand by the bar and end up chatting to about 10 different gals and geezers over this hour I’m there. All good fun though nobody really sticks around. There’s also a salsa and bachata class going on in the background. I need to get back into that but right now wasn’t up for it and was a bit late to the party. It’s a good vibe but then as per my luck things took a sharp turn to the downside when I end up meeting a another welshie!

So this girl spots my accent and gets chatting. She’s from Midwest Wales and I get to talking usual small talk. So far fine then she pulls up her bag and it has a pin of a certain controversial little place in the middle east that has gotten everyone riled up back home…….let’s just say we were not on the same page with that one and during the ‘debate’ she happened to rant on a about of lots of stupid welsh political outrages back home……..There is a lot more I could say but “if say anything I’m in big trouble!” I had to bite my tongue and quietly disengage. Oh well she wasn’t much of a looker anyway! I hang about for one more then head back to a terrace bar by El templo.

Finishing the night ends with a bit of cheap entertainment as up there I get a front row seat to watch some midnight engineering operation going on – a big truck with a crane pulls up to the place next door then a minute later another little truck pulls up with pallets stacked way higher than they would be allowed to be back home and right away the lad gets out and climbs on top of this wobbly pile of pallets and gets to work with his other mate and someone else at the top of the other terrace. It’s quite entertaining watching this going on mundane as it is as you never know if it’s going to be the next big fail on Reddit but fair play to them they got the Ikea delivery up there without any fails. After this it’s closing time there and time to head back. They also undercharged me on the bill which is never a bad thing!

Saturday however I wake up feeling rather depressed. Had planned to do this tour but didn’t bother and instead headed to the marketplace for breakfast but things soon take a turn again. But for better or worse? Well that is for the next installment. Ciao ciao por ahora!