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Well, Hola again...hope you enjoyed the interval...some have, some have actually missed me...that's nice....Well, I'm here on the lovely Isla de Margarita in Venezuela...can you find it Kate?...and still haven't found if the drink was named after this place or vice versa...I reckon if you have a few you could be here!...perfecto island, classic Carribean, and I'm doing the homestay thing with a Mum and Son in a house, well, actually its an igloo!...hard to imagine how the architectural style translated but this place is ferro-concrete, several domes, painted white and surprisingly functional...any breeze passes thru...I've got a little room upstairs, air-con, and even a little tv..in fact I'm getting most of my español from the tv, mythbusters dubbed, seinfeld dubbed, all the sports dubbed...<br />I'm living the simple life, brekky around 7 then walk to one of the local beaches, 25 - 50 mins depending on how much exercise versus the heat...always high 30's and 90% humidity...perfecto.

The Big Grill

Bill Shum
2006-03-24 21:58:44

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Well, Hola again...hope you enjoyed the interval...some have, some have actually missed me...that's nice....Well, I'm here on the lovely Isla de Margarita in Venezuela...can you find it Kate?...and still haven't found if the drink was named after this place or vice versa...I reckon if you have a few you could be here!...perfecto island, classic Carribean, and I'm doing the homestay thing with a Mum and Son in a house, well, actually its an igloo!...hard to imagine how the architectural style translated but this place is ferro-concrete, several domes, painted white and surprisingly functional...any breeze passes thru...I've got a little room upstairs, air-con, and even a little tv..in fact I'm getting most of my español from the tv, mythbusters dubbed, seinfeld dubbed, all the sports dubbed...
I'm living the simple life, brekky around 7 then walk to one of the local beaches, 25 - 50 mins depending on how much exercise versus the heat...always high 30's and 90% humidity...perfecto.
I walk around the beaches as far as I can go, maybe 7 or 8 little bays, each perfect white sand, clear blue water, palm fringed...a lot of the street houses back down to the foreshore and the lines of palms...from time to time a concrete block with a 'restaurante' sign but no signs of life...a woman has set up a fire place, sheltered from whatever breeze by sheets of cardboard! and has a wok shaped frypan bubbling away...she's frying up the local standard empanadas, half circle pastry filled (never enough!) with meat, cheese and other indescribable 'delicacies'...and fried to death.
And most days I'm lucky to see half a dozen people...and even quieter this week as the school hols finished last weekend....and Morella is back to work, teacher!
At the far end of the last beach, before the cliffs, there's a set of small cinderblock fishermens houses, pretty poor folk by the look, but friendly enough ...