Last Bachata Lesson Up bright and early, we had a delicious breakfast of eggs, tortilla and tabasco sauce before we walked to the studio for our final dance lesson. Being earlier than our previous ones the room started out slightly cooler, but before long it had heated up plenty and we were both dripping with sweat. Another excellent 3 hour lesson and it was finally time to say goodbye to Bolivar and Carla, we swapped e-mails and Carla said she would prepare u...

More Bachata As our lesson today was arranged for 4pm we had a little lie in before getting up for breakfast and spent what was left of the morning on the patchy internet and practising a bit of dancing. After some delicious melon as a late lunch, eventually it was time to go and we walked eagerly to our next lesson arriving at least 15 minutes early and practising a bit more in front of the huge mirrors in the studio. When our teacher, Bolivar, arrived we wer...

Flea Market We walked into the Colonial Centre to look for a flea market which we had read about on the internet. We found the Plaza with few problems but as has been the case so often on our travels the market we were after was nowhere to be seen, we're not sure if it is gone completely or just there during tourist season. The Plaza itself was very pretty though and flanked on one side by a very old looking building which I presume dates from the original Sp...

The rum last night meant we hadn't gone out dancing and so were fresh and ready for our lesson this morning and after eating breakfast we headed into town for 11 o'clock. When we got there however Carla said she was very sorry but the teacher wouldn't be able to get over until this afternoon as his little boy wasn't well, so we re-arranged for 4pm and left a little disheartened, not sure what to do with ourselves for the next 5 hours. We stopped by the little emp...

After our breakfast we decided that since the veg men only seemed to be about during the mornings we would go and look for one immediately. Of course since we were actually looking for one there were none about and we spent a good hour or so wandering the streets around our apartment with no success. During our walk we also went down to the shore to see if there was a beach where we could sunbathe and swim. What we found however was that since this area is next t...