Although the room was rather tired looking and had a funny indefinable smell, everything is relative and given the other potential options of mosquito hell or the back seat of the car, we were pretty happy to be there. At breakfast, we met out Dutch saviour again, who had brought his wife and kids to the hotel for a day by the pool. We explained we'd decided to stay an extra day and would head along the coast road the next day. It's for the adventurous, he...

We were awake early (not our best night's sleep) and enjoyed a nice breakfast on the roof terrace after repacking and returning the room to its previous state. Our hostess Myra was very touched by the M&S gift bag we gave her before we left. We explained to her that we planned to stay in Pilon that night and as there was no hotel there and only 2 casas, Myra phoned ahead to her friend (Lydia) to organise a room there for us. After a false start (due to ...