Second course of set lunch ! Fish balls, tomato sauce, plain rice, plantain and salad. The fish balls here are just fish, flour, spices and yellow / red colour. That's how Miss Orfie (who owned our posada made them anyway). They are all this shape too on the islands. Not quite round, more oval. It's a bit odd how much colouring is added to food here. The supermarket shelves are full of different colours. It has zero impact on the taste. So although they lo...

Set lunch in town. Finally made it into the big smoke. A nice long walk so worked up an appetite. Vegetable soup (with the ubiquitous pieces of meat for flavour lol) It had yucca, green beans carrot onion and a nice broth like taste. I really like the potato texture and flavour of Yucca. It absorbs the flavour of the soup really well as it doesn't seem to have much of a punch itself. Going to cook with it this week and see what else it can taste like.

Camel mangos. Growing across the road. Most of the fruit is taken up with the seed which is the same size as the seed in normal (Irish sold mangos) but the rest of the fruit is much smaller. Two or three of these make up what I'd call a normal mango. There are so many types here. Must list them. The skin will burn your mouth so you obviously peel it first and the fruit is chewy fruit tropical sweet. It tastes fake its so syrupy sweet. I'll add some to porridge ...

Vegetable pasta again. Went crazy and changed the pasta type tonight for a spinach tomato variety and it adds a little something to the meal. Other than that it's still vegetables and pasta in a tomato sauce. Like we have had for the last two nights! Tomorrow we get our own kitchen. Whoop. Whoop.

Lunch. Combination of saving money and not that hungry. Nothing more really to say. Oh Bizzarly the white cheese is double the calories ! Both taste like cardboard.