Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Exploring Antigua

So, how many times can you get lost in a town that is only a couple of square miles in size?

Turns out that in the space of a couple of hours you can get lost quite a few times. It doesn't help that there are no street signs anywhere.

Luckily this is easily solved by finding a local and saying "donde estamos?" - I'm hoping this means "where are we?". But in all honesty it could mean anything...

Despite this I managed to find myself a nice breakfast, checked out several language schools and have signed up for some lessons tomorrow with a view to signing up for 4 weeks staying with a local family. The lady who signed me up seemed to be very proud of the fact that lessons start at 8am - seemed to think that this was some kind of good thing. What a weirdo.

Now it's time to find some lunch and maybe a bookshop. This afternoon looks like it could be spent chilling out in the garden. Tonight I must find a beer.

Weather is great, though it does get very cold at night. I'm glad I've got my coat from London. It's very hot today though and nice and sunny.

I have to start slowing down a bit as well I'm suffering from a similar problem to Mark, have not yet got my holiday pace, still stuck on London rushing around. http://markonsafari.blogspot.com/2006/10/athens.html

Will get some photos up soon. Just need to find where I packed my camera, it's cable, the charger etc...

This morning's top tip:

  • "una via" is not the name of the street. The locals will laugh at you if you think it is.

2 comments:

Rupert said...

Chris!

Duncan told us about your blog. Everyone at Keima is now watching with envy. More pictures please.

Good luck with the language lessons - after C++ surely Spanish is a doddle ;-)

Chris said...

Still looking for the camera cable - will make a special effort tomorrow for the volcano pictures.