Friday, February 20

Today the Canadian contingent moves out. Ben and Chloe are returning to Ontario this afternoon. Andrew and Ninia, and their friend Sara are moving to an apartment they found last night. They took me with them to dinner.

 We ate at a Streetside Cafe and had fish tacos as they are meant to be.

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(NB I tried and tried to put the actual image, but am not smart enough to copy a google street view.

Andrew's surfer friend "Graco" runs the restaurant. He knew of an apartment. It's across the street from the restaurant on the fourth floor (top floor) with a thatched roof and with spiral staircase up the outside. plus the landlord threw in a unit on the third floor for $300 pesos per night, so that Sara has her own private space. That calculates out to about $20 US per night. On the Zicztela strip right in the thick of things. 

Graco owns a huge St Bernard type dog, Dogs name is RUOK. which Graco keeps repeating as "are you okay?" he is a real gentle giant. He says he has an offer to go to Stolkholm, Sweden for three months to start a restaurant and train the staff. The dog can go as part of the deal. Interesting.

Anyway, they left this morning. It will be peaceful (too much so??) the last week here. I will probably see them on the beach though.