[12/18/2015 Friday]
Apart from the strong thunderstorm, I could sleep surprisingly well under my own mosquito net!
We have not booked breakfast and get pancakes with maple syrup and scrambled eggs, plus cafe on order in the open “cafe-restaurant-art gallery”.
After the exhausting car journeys and experiences of the last days, the car should stay in front of the door today. The Internet is used extensively and since the car ride will be tracked with GPS from now on, we are looking for a way to display this graphically. Many people visit the cafe, there is a lot of activity.
14:30 o’clock it becomes too boring for us and we drive a piece up the mountain, the street leads in New Castle in the middle of a military training area of the army, which is stationed here (originally one wanted to escape the yellow fever and has therefore built the military training area on 1200m height). Really nobody keeps to the speed limits, but in every second curve there is a traffic sign with the inscription “Slow”, which is very amusing. In a very inviting looking Bed & Breakfast we want to have a coffee, unfortunately there is no public cafe, we talk briefly with the owner and continue. In front of her pension is a bouquet decorated with Christmas balls.
In the local small mini store around the corner, we quickly have another piece of cake and Coke and rum.
For dinner we order shrimp with pasta and pesto.
The shower in our minibath works surprisingly well, we let the relaxing day end with Rum Cola.