Heidi & Richard Bendel's travels

17 March, 07

We were sad to be leaving Villas Macondo. It was a really comfortable place, we had our little patio and free wireless internet and we were very settled. But, Julia and Renzo are arriving later and so we are moving to a fancy apartment; how wrong can you go with that?! We trekked across the town in the heat with our bags to the Best Western where we fetched the keys. They could not give us a lift to the condo and so we had to walk up quite a steep hill and it wasn’t hot, it was boiling. Our bags felt so heavy and I felt every muscle in my legs. We got to the apartments and they omitted to give us the code to enter the security gate. Luckily we found the maintenance fellow and he let us in. We happened to find a washing machine and this was such good news. It is amazing what makes one excited on a trip like this. Anyway, we did four loads of washing (with loads of detergent) - even our clean clothes we re-washed and we also did our filthy day bags. The place did not have a cupboard with hanging space and so we called the hotel and they sent some fellow to open the cupboard that was locked. He just broke the lock –just like that- and it was crazy, but we got some hanging space. We had a sandwich and a swim in the lovely complex pool and waited for the Daniel’s to arrive. They arrived all hot and sweaty and we all walked down to the beach. Julia and I had a swim for about half an hour- the waves were great and the water was so warm. We watched the sun setting and walked back up the hill for a glass of wine on the patio. We were very relaxed and it was really comfortable in the apartment. We had delicious fish for dinner and we trekked back up that blessed hill for the fourth time today- and last.