Day 4 began after a good night sleep as the time difference works for my advantage. Enni woke up only after 8 which usually never happens back home! Brilliant, lets keep it this way!
Breakfast at the apartment and after that we decided to go and have a look at the mystical Circus marked on the map. It's pretty near so we ended up walking. Took only one bottle of water with us. That's the recipe of disaster. Well, maybe not a disaster but a wrong estimation at least. The day started up as a quite hot ona which is no different from the other days in here. But it surprised me big time. After a walk of about half an hour I was sweating like a pig and the water bottle was half empty already. Technically of coure it was full as the other half was filled with air. ;) The water was fresh taken from the fridge when we left but now it was already warm like fresh milk! It started to look like Enni's cheeks were also quite red, meaning that she was also feeling the heat. Now, in this point you may gueaa that I'm not a too experienced south-east traveller. Nope, I'm not. But I also understand that it's rather easy to get some type of a heatstroke, especially for the kids. So, as sweaty as I was I took Enni and carried her for the next kilometer or so. We found a small booth selling umbrellas and the lady was offering one with pictures of princesses for Enni. The deal was on immediately! :) The sun cover helped us over the worst and we found a cafe with airconditioning... or at least a huge set of fans. Took some cool drinks there and carried on as soon as the red from Enni's cheeks had vanished. This taught me not to underestimate the hot weather, at least in this point of the trip!
Moving on we actully got to the place named Circus and found out that it was closed. They had had a show there earlier and the next one would be in the evening. Bugger. We took a taxi back to apartment and cooled down for a while and went to eat in the same place we ate the day before. This was because Enni liked the food there and that I hadn't tried the springrolls and the dumplings there. Boy, was that the best solution like ever! Awesome stuff and the people there of course recognised us and were thrilled with Enni's presence. I suppose they do it with every white people there to feel them welcomed. After all, I liked the atmosphere and food there. After the food I went to buy a local SIM for less than 4 €.
After the meal we went to the pool and swam for few hours until I felt like I needed to get inside, off the sun. After the pool we went to have some coffee downstairs and a while after that walking around the streets we came accross the first Nokia branded store. OK, it had ALSO Nokia logo on it. ;)
The "Nokia" store.
In the evening we went to eat a bit further from the apartment and I learned my second lesson ofthe day: Everything that shimmers is not gold. The place had a spectacular view but the food side was rather weak. Everthing I asked for was "not today" or sold out. Nothing on the list actually was interesting enough to be ordered. Then the waitress brought another menu from which she showed me something and I thought that "what the heck... I have to eat something". Ended up with an aptizer sized dish of prawn. A thing that I'm not too fond of.
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The view from the restaurant
The apetizer sized dish.
The greatest lesson of the day should be the "you live, you learn" Like Alanis Morrisette once sang. :) I think that the coming days will bring more of these small challenges jut to piss me off. No, seriously they're just flavoring the life. I'm ok, if the seasoning is not too much off the pitch. ;)
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What goes around, comes around- tree and...
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...some new friends we found last night. Yummmmy!!
Breakfast at the apartment and after that we decided to go and have a look at the mystical Circus marked on the map. It's pretty near so we ended up walking. Took only one bottle of water with us. That's the recipe of disaster. Well, maybe not a disaster but a wrong estimation at least. The day started up as a quite hot ona which is no different from the other days in here. But it surprised me big time. After a walk of about half an hour I was sweating like a pig and the water bottle was half empty already. Technically of coure it was full as the other half was filled with air. ;) The water was fresh taken from the fridge when we left but now it was already warm like fresh milk! It started to look like Enni's cheeks were also quite red, meaning that she was also feeling the heat. Now, in this point you may gueaa that I'm not a too experienced south-east traveller. Nope, I'm not. But I also understand that it's rather easy to get some type of a heatstroke, especially for the kids. So, as sweaty as I was I took Enni and carried her for the next kilometer or so. We found a small booth selling umbrellas and the lady was offering one with pictures of princesses for Enni. The deal was on immediately! :) The sun cover helped us over the worst and we found a cafe with airconditioning... or at least a huge set of fans. Took some cool drinks there and carried on as soon as the red from Enni's cheeks had vanished. This taught me not to underestimate the hot weather, at least in this point of the trip!
Moving on we actully got to the place named Circus and found out that it was closed. They had had a show there earlier and the next one would be in the evening. Bugger. We took a taxi back to apartment and cooled down for a while and went to eat in the same place we ate the day before. This was because Enni liked the food there and that I hadn't tried the springrolls and the dumplings there. Boy, was that the best solution like ever! Awesome stuff and the people there of course recognised us and were thrilled with Enni's presence. I suppose they do it with every white people there to feel them welcomed. After all, I liked the atmosphere and food there. After the food I went to buy a local SIM for less than 4 €.
Something still to try on the menu... ;)
After the meal we went to the pool and swam for few hours until I felt like I needed to get inside, off the sun. After the pool we went to have some coffee downstairs and a while after that walking around the streets we came accross the first Nokia branded store. OK, it had ALSO Nokia logo on it. ;)
The "Nokia" store.
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The In the evening we went to eat a bit further from the apartment and I learned my second lesson ofthe day: Everything that shimmers is not gold. The place had a spectacular view but the food side was rather weak. Everthing I asked for was "not today" or sold out. Nothing on the list actually was interesting enough to be ordered. Then the waitress brought another menu from which she showed me something and I thought that "what the heck... I have to eat something". Ended up with an aptizer sized dish of prawn. A thing that I'm not too fond of.
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The greatest lesson of the day should be the "you live, you learn" Like Alanis Morrisette once sang. :) I think that the coming days will bring more of these small challenges jut to piss me off. No, seriously they're just flavoring the life. I'm ok, if the seasoning is not too much off the pitch. ;)
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