17th Dec 2009
Our next stop was Zihuatanejo.
I am happy, very happy, extremely happy and very very relaxed – I presume it is the result of the billows of smoke filling our cabins – the secondhand smoke arrives with compliments from the yacht in front of us and smells suspiciously like marijuana!!! I wonder if the headache the next morning had anything to do with it.
This is a larger town than Navidad and caters a little more to the tourist trade. Everyone was friendly, the market was great and gross at the same time – we gawked like tourists (and not the seasoned travellers that we are) at the orange chooks with their legs spread wide, the beef heart and liver hanging from a hook and bleeding on the pathway, the miles of thin beef that resembles jerky and some strange vegetables and fruits that we had not come across before. I usually like to find out how to cook them and try some but no one spoke our language and our limited Spanish just did not cut it.
We were excited to read about a concert on a stage right in front of our boat – how lucky was that!!! There was a nativity scene in front of the stage and we presumed the concert was a Christmas one with small children dressed up and singing carols - it turned out to be a very loud noisy rock concert – hatches closed and earplugs in and we still couldn’t hear ourselves think!!! I was happy to leave. The anchorage was rolly and a little uncomfortable. Don and I were surprised as the number of guards/police carrying machine guns – we don’t know anything about guns but they looked serious and they seem to be on most street corners always walking in pairs.
We are moving quickly now – one of Don’s friends, Richard, is meeting us in El Salvador on 14th January. Although we have approx. 1000 miles still to go there is plenty of time unless …….
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