Slacker ( hot) day

To the market and beach but thats about it. The calima is blowing from the Sahara so it is very hot and hazy. We wandered down to the market at the marina and eyed various items but didn’t purchase. Some decidedly dodgy art for sale - i suspect even i could make a living here flogging bad art in the day and dubious singing at night.
We needed a boost to make it back to the hotel so stopped for an ice cream and listened to a sixty something bloke mixing 80s tracks for a while. We were quite impressed by his mixing abilities given his ( apparent) age.
Then dripped back to the hotel where we put the fan on and lazed around playing trains ( lost 2 out of 3) and poking our phones until swim time at 4. Down to the beach which was minimal as the tide was in and into the sea. Quite choppy and chilly with the wind behind it so we swam parallel to the beach to warm up and then spent some time trying to pick rocks up with our feet! Sam was good at this but not me. Out when chilly and back to the hotel. Shower tea and a quick call with Mandy before bananagrams ( which was interrupted by a trip to the pool to rescue a huge grasshopper thing that had inadvertently ended up in the pool. Won bananagrams and then did some you tube music and tv quizzes interrupted by discussions of who’s dead and who’s had bad plastic surgery! And so to bed!Read more