Pilote's Travel Blog, no. 6 -More little bits

Today the weather was perfect….again.  If anything it was a little too hot, usually there’s a bit of a breeze but no breeze to be had on this day.  The line up for eggs or omelette, at breakfast, was unusually long due to some late arrivals yesterday, not too sure where they’re all from.  It appears to be a smattering of French-Canadians, Russians (ubiquitous) and ????  Didn’t get a chance to ascertain the nationalities of others.

Spent some time swimming, water is getting warmer both in the sea and in the pool which is great.  I’m always surprised by the fact that so many people come to the tropics, sunbathe but never swim.  We’re usually the only ones who use the pool on a regular basis.  Met this really loco (crazy) guy today whose nationality shall remain undisclosed.  Between him and his son they packed 20 kilos extra of food in their luggage.   He was a complainer of the highest order.  He complained about the food which isn’t that great but we keep reminding ourselves that Cubans don’t have it nearly as good when it comes to food options. He complained about the state of his room, the windows in the dining room which were fogged up, the bugs (there were a couple of flies in the dining room), the beach, man he even complained about the water.  If there’s one thing you can’t complain about it’s the water.  It’s clear, it’s warm, it’s a gorgeous shade of turquoise, it’s clean, in any case you get the picture.  He was going on and on like he had never traveled in a third world country before furthermore if you want 5 star treatment you don’t book into a 3 star hotel.  

We’ve had our own share of misadventures and we’re dealing with them. We didn’t have water at all for about 3 hours one day.  Next the hot water quit on us, it’s back today.  For the last 3 days the toilet flushing mechanism hasn’t worked.  We’ve used the shower head nozzle to fill up the tank (my idea) and then manually flush as needed.  We’re adaptable not the end of the world certainly.  The tank eventually fills up but it takes 3 to 4 hours , that’s not really working in my book because you can only do one flush.  I’ve lodged 3 complaints so far.  Two hombres came yesterday, they looked and that’s about all they did…LOOK.  We’re still waiting for them to get back to us and not holding our breath.  Today is the Academy Awards, the t.v. is worse than ever but we did manage to get CTV.  It’s very blurry though, I don’t think we’ll be enjoying the show that much.  It’s the first time, in a long time, that we haven’t filled out our ballots to try and guess who’s going to win.  We started that tradition a while back but didn’t get around to it this year.  We don’t have many traditions in our family so the few we have are precious.   I’m going to keep a tally and try my hand at guessing  who’s going to win even if I’m only competing against myself.