Dec 27 - Friday
Yesterday was a bit of a bust, but we did see a new area on foot. It had rained pretty much all night (again), but in the morning it continued off and on, sometimes hard. After breakfast it was clear we weren't going to any beach destinations soon, so we unpacked our rain jackets and suited up for another walk, first stop the Dekal bistro for coffees to go. I wish they had sweeton condensed milk but lived with milk, at least its nice and strong. We did another walk into the marina, looking to find the beach that apparently is there from what I have read. We never found it although much of the area is gated and locked. After cutting thru the hole in the fench we continued touring, stopping into a couple stores, one selling all kinds of clothing, another full of houseware items. Then we stumbled into the large "covered" market. I am surprised we never saw it before, it takes up a lot of space near the shell and Texaco gas stations.There you could buy all kinds of things, some vendors sold touristy stuff, but it was mostly household stuff as well as lots of veggie sellers. All we bought was a couple Styrofoam cups of beef soup. I never loved it, wife thought it was pretty good. Then we walked up onto titchfield, did the biggest loop I think walking by Ivanhoes at one point. It looks like a decent place to stay but parking only on the street, which would concern me a bit. All that walking got my tummy calling so we decided to try yosch cafe for a pizza and calzone. We ordered then waited. Then we waited some more. After that we waited. Was probably an hour that we sat there. Finally they were ready and we decided to walk back to hotel to feed. Almost as soon as we left the building it started to drizzle. We had walked about a blocks distance along the built up cement "sidewalk" when we came upon a Jamaican guy walking in our direction, and it came instantly clear he was going to take a leak. He steps off the cement, starts to piss, then in mid pee steps back on the walk and starts walking, pissing as he goes. Thankfully we were still far enough away we could abandon the walk and jump down to the street to avoid his deluge. Gross. So we kept walking and it started to rain harder, me getting more depressed by the second thinking about eating wet pizza. Finally got to hotel and into room. Well the calzone was dry still and only a tiny section of pie was wasted. We sat there and watched TV while it poured outside the window It never stopped raining and we never stopped eating for the next while. It was a complete pigslob fest and I enjoyed all of it. But after eating we sat there and vegged watching one episode of law and order after another. Pretty soon its dark, we had wasted the rest of the day, although with the off and on rain there wasn't much to do. At one point we came up to the roof (where we are now) to hang out. I don't think I even got my spliff lit and it started to rain again, so back to the room. We showered, watched more tv and decided to go back to our new bar. I think it never rained anymore, of course Andy was there, enjoying some crayfish soup, which we also tried. Yummy. We had the usual, 3 beers for me, 2 for Rosie. Talked for a while, met a fairly young lady who was from PA but lived and worked in the Caymen Islands now. She was very nice but the music was too loud to catch her whole story. After we left it was back to the same cookshop we got supper from the previous night. This time Rosie got the small, me the large. It comes to 550J - I gave him 1000 and told him to keep all of it, it was a lot of food and I have paid much more for less in Ja many times. Then a rare thing happened - the chef insists I try his soup for free, and he fills a Styrofoam cup 3/4 full. It was delicious. Tonight will probably make it a 3-peat of his place. One other thing I forgot to mention. As we walked by the fishermans area earlier in the day while going to the convenience store a couple guys were weighing a large mahi mahi, biggest I have ever seen in person. I don't know what it weighed but it must have been 4 feet long. Being a fisherman, that was treat for me.
Day 8 to follow.....enjoying a rain free (so far) session on the roof
