Tuesday 20th March:

Em had a pleasant surprise this morning when she woke up with a rash on her eye! concerned, she went to the chemist who didn't exactly put her mind at rest when he said 'ooh yes i've never seen anything like that before, if it gets worse head straight for the doctor! thankfully it went after using a very powerful face wash that left Em's face stinging for about half an hour. (it's gone now so don't worry)

We had a look around the town and really liked it, a very chilled out atmosphere and there are a lot of hippies. You get the feeling that anyone would be welcome here which is really nice. We therefore extended our nights to 6 in total. We got our photos put onto disc - still havn't quite mastered how to get them onto our journal yet - and Soph sent a big parcel home. (So if any of you are eager to see photos head to Barb's!) We did a big shop in the afternoon and are now addicted to honey bears, only $1 a box and Em's planning on filling a suitcase full of them to bring home in case they don't sell them in England.

We have also discovered that our culinary skills are rapidly going down hill. Here's the scene: everyone else in the kitchen with minimal appliances opts for beans on toast, pasta or pot noodles and then there's us in the corner trying to produce a dish of Chicken in filo pastry with sauteed potatoes in one frying pan! Needless to say it all went a bit Pete Tong - Em was on the chicken and Soph was on the potatoes, we have discovered you CANNOT cook pastry in a frying pan, and adding endless amounts of oil does not help. Soph was struggling to get the potatoes crispy so poured on 2 litres of oil which coudln't be drained as there were no drainers so we ended up having oil on plate withthe odd piece of chicken, burnt pastry and soggy oiled potato......we ate it though don't worry.

In the evening we went out to a place called 'Cocomanga's' and 'Cheeky Monkeys' and got some free drink, weren't having abig night though as saving our money for tommorrow.