Wednesday November 26, 2014

A great ride today. We left the carrerrata and headed north to Peurta Padre. We weren’t fighting the wind and the road was really good. There were some sections that were quite rough, but because it was a quieter road we could alternate which side of the road we were cycling on. It is another hot day, the forecast was for a high of 33 degrees.

We arrived in Puerta Padre at 11:30 we made really good time. We had a recommendation from Oscar for a casa but nobody was home. There was another on the waterfront, we had spotted so we went back to that. We have a view of the ocean and the breeze coming through the room cooled us down nicely.

We went for a walk through the town and had something to eat. We watched the local old guys play dominos and ARRG wanted to play. The old guys didn’t want him to play, but allowed him to watch.

It was really hot so we came back to the casa and sat on the upstairs balcony and relaxed.

We had picked a place for our evening meal that was a fish restaurant about 500 metres from the casa. We had an evening stroll along the waterfront and noticed the restaurant was open. We came back to the restaurant and asked for the menu – “No menu”.   “We would like to eat dinner” “No – no food until tomorrow”.

Ralf and I shook our heads, why open a restaurant if you have no food, a fridge full of beer and rum, but no food and tables fully set.

We asked where we could eat, she gave us directions, but it seemed to be down the back alleyways of Puerta Padre. We made our way to the main street again, the sidewalks had been rolled up and all that was open was a pizza café. Ralf asked one of the bicycle taxi drivers if there was a restaurant where we could eat – well he actually mimed the question. The taxi driver said he would take us, so off we went down the back alleys and found a lovely little restaurant that served excellent food and had the best waitress service, she even said I spoke good Spanish! Our taxi driver asked what time to pick us up. We told him an hour and he was waiting for us after our meal.

We had a good day.