After I checked in to the Balu Hostel, I sat for a while on the balcony deck chair to knit and eat the avocado I snuck through customs from Raleys back home. I could see the sea and the ferry dock where I had just been.
Then I took a walking tour along the shore
around the north end of the island. It was a trip down memory lane about my trip here last May, but this time my rest stop was a new place, Jax’s Bar and Grill where I waited out a passing shower and took this obligatory island paradise photo.
Balu Hostel was a one night stand for me. My goal was to have a definite place to land and then walk the central district to find another place to stay for the following 5 nights - I was not sure if I would like it and did not want to commit sight unseen. It turned out to be a good place (for a hostel)
in a good location with a comfy bed and pillow in a room I shared with six other females. None were English speaking which was OK because already I feel comfortable “con mi habilidad que comunicar en español”. I did not feel like it tonight though because they were younger and I knew I would be leaving in the morning. So I ate the dinner Balu was serving ( bad decision in retrospect) and took another walking tour ( this time on the interior streets rather than the shoreline) and found the comfy coffee shop I knew from last year where I had a strawberry smoothie to soothe my tummy and access their internet.
Back in the room a couple hours later I laid on my bunk knitting, and I finished my first book on tape and went to sleep with the lights on which was easy because I was “muy cansada” and the girls were quiet. Buenas noches!
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