Night on the town We had a long lay in this morning and a cold shower to try and soothe our sunburn, which although no where near as bad as that of Miami was still rather sore. We spent the remainder of the morning and much of the day hiding from the sun, trying to find a campervan on the incredibly crap internet which is off more often than it is on and reading on the kindle or Ipod. After dinner that evening we got ready to go out as we had arranged to meet ...

Boca Chica This morning we managed to drag ourselves out of bed at 10 for breakfast of eggs, tortillas and hot sauce. We had been planning to go to the beach ever since we got here and as we had found no time so far we quickly gathered our things and set off determined that today we would get there!! We walked up to where the tourist info guy had said we could catch the bus but failing to find the bus stop we resorted to asking a couple of locals who guided us...

Colonial Day We got up this morning and had breakfast before heading out to do our tourist's duty and explore the Colonial Centre of Santo Domingo. Armed with our camera, a map and a large bottle of water we headed out the door and turned left, walking along until we came to a large archway through which we passed, finding that this was one of the many 'puertas' or 'gates' of the city leading to within the walls. From here we walked along a street which contai...

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...