Drinking and smoking are what the owners of this hostel on the ocean do around here. The hangout is the bar and is where they spend most their time and burn an endless chain of cigarettes. The hiss of beers being opened starts just before noon. I concluded that a bar in bug infested tropics that confine you to a large screened room is a bad thing. The insects bar you from outside activity so you spend it indoors with drink, smoke and boring traveler tales.
All I saw them do was drink, we'll make an alcoholic out of you, David came the shot across the bow one evening when I surprised them by ordering one. Drinkers hate it when you don't drink with them. Misery loves company is what these experiences have shown me and I have trouble joining them.
When you do not drink, or do not drink very much it reminds them of their consumption. It unnerves them to see a person content without drink, one who is comfortable without needing to be plastered. You are an outsider and the relationship does not last long. They grow uncomfortable of you.
Like most bars this one too smelled of urine and disappointment not to mention mosquitoes that could fly 24/7 in any weather including direct sunlight. I obviously had something to prove, I stayed there nearly a week.
David
Isla de Ometepe, Nicaragua
2 comments:
sounds sad! Move along little doggy! The world is your oyster!
Limited for sure. So much to see, learn, feel and see in world and felt so limiting.
David
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