28/03/2014
See, I am trying to go as European as possible. That includes eating lots of bread, which I don't do at home; not because of any weird diet issues, but because it just doesn't factor into my buying and eating routine. Here we go buy fresh bread everyday, eat real butter, eat full fat yogurt, and walk daily. Most days we also ride our bikes. However, we will never be able to adopt the Spanish daily routine of the 3 hour afternoon siesta, dinner at 10pm or later, and prime time TV begins at 11p.m. Fortunately, where we are staying now, we can live our own schedule, which has gotten a bit later than at home, but nothing crazy.
Today we awoke to rain and wind, which puts our bike riding on hold. We just don't like riding in the rain, and we have 4.5 months of riding; we can skip a day. We have been riding up the volcano road trying to get a little further up every day. For example, the 25 mile out and back was 12.5 miles of constant climbing, about 2800'. Nothing extreme, but unrelenting. But the views! Que bonita! As we get higher up, we have views down to the sea on both sides of the road, and it is a very dramatic 6000' below us. And the volcano, covered in snow is still visible ahead.
Yesterday was finally a warm day, and we ventured down to the beach town of Puerto Cruz. They have black sand beaches (volcanic sand) a lively and touristy old town and plenty of tourists. We did the ultimate turista move.... ate in a seaside restaurant with a menu printed in 6 languages, with pictures and laminated to boot! Food was fine, the beer was cold, the sun delicious on my back and I loved every minute of it.
Ciao for now.
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