Tipsy swims & people watching

After returning to the hotel from our speedboat trip to the city I took a well needed nap. Waking up I just wanted to sleep more but knew it would be better to get out and about again. Looking for local places to eat I stumbled across a Spanish restaurant offering tapas. Having had a lovely meal at Movida next door a few weeks ago, I craved good tapas so suggested it for dinner. Rookie mistake by me!

District 2 is an affluent neighbourhood home both an international school and international vet clinic. We passed both on our walk to the tapas restaurant. The menu looked ok and we ordered a few dishes to test it out. Yikes it was bad! I decided to try a beer and in comparison to the food, the beer was delicious (I don’t drink beer normally).

With neither of us wanting to risk eating this food, I faked getting a text message about our tour leaving early as an excuse for us to bail, having barely touched our food. Had to do this as we were the only customer and all the staff stared at us while we awkwardly didn’t eat. 😂

Bec did better research and found a stylish bar down an alley nearby. Bonus - it was happy hour with 2 for 1 cocktails. A pair of delicious Mai Tais for me later, on top of the beer and I was a little tipsy. Feeling a tad under dressed we watched the local well dressed ladies pose around the bar for selfies.

Once back at the hotel went for a night swim and had a few beers chatting in the pool. Tipsy swimming is fun when you have a beautiful pool without any other guests. To end the night we had a drink on my balcony overlooking the wedding party below and their lack of enthusiasm. We decide that ‘Mike’ was really trying his hardest to get the party started but to no avail. A huge difference to the breakdance act I saw before heading to the pool.

With an impending beer induced hangover looming I crashed for the night, having enjoyed being an old muppet in my balcony box sharing my cantankerous opinions on the guests well into the evening.Read more