Surprisingly enough, we got up & decided to move to another part of the island in the hope there might be at least a small beach & a choice of a couple of restaurants in Santa Domingo. So after we'd got a refund for the 2nd night that we'd booked & paid for, we set off. One hour & 2 buses later, we arrived to find the 6 or 7 places to stay fully booked, except an expensive poshish room. So we took it & spoiled ourselves!! There wasn't much of ...

Up at 5:45am (it's not all lazing about doing this travelling marlarcky!), to catch a couple of buses to get to Penas Blancas, the border crossing, about 4 hours later. This was actually one of the more poo border crossings on the grounds that they couldn't organise a p1ss-up in a brewery! The queue to get stamped out was huge & no-one (including other travellers) seemed to like the queueing system, with pushing & shoving aplenty & the staff working a...