me and elen were meant to go to san ignacio today to look at the ruins there
but
surprise surprise its still raining.
i got up at nine, showered, ate, bummed, went back to bed until three because i was so bored. got up. me and elen decided we were facing certain death if we stayed bored and in the house for any longer so went in search of anything open, which on a sunday in a catholic country, was gonna take a while.
luckily [or unluckily as the case may be] there is a bar at the end of our street that was open. we went in and said we wanted a glass of red wine and a bottle of Quilmes. the barman just looked at us like we were monkeys that had escaped from the circus and said he didnt understand. we pointed and laughed until we got what we wanted but elen had to have a bottle of wine not a glass haha. we also got two empanadas each and all of it was only ten pesos which is like one pound fifty haha.
we went round the back bit to play pool and almost instantly were talking to some fourty-fiftyish year old men. they wanted to play pool with us and we figured - free game of pool- sorted. they didnt really get that we didnt speak spanish and kept trying to ask us stuff that we didnt understand. it got a bit creepy after a while coz one of them kept asking if we wanted to leave with them and we just kept having to shout no no no no no no no and look disgusted and we decided to leave after that game of pool but unfortunately it was like a never ending game that no one could win. the oldest man came up to me after discussing something with his friends and just went ¨F*** YOU¨ in my face! i was just like whattt is going onnnnn and eventually the game ended and we [it was half past four] said ohhh nooo what a shame weve got to go and have dinner what a nightmare so sorryyy and they sooo didnt believe us because of the time but nevermind. we practially ran out fo the bar and two of them left at the same time but luckily were headed in a different direction to us, but we started walking in the wrong direction just in case someone followed us. then this other man whod seen all that came over asking if we spoke english and we said yes and he said are you ok you look worried are you lost? and we explained about the scary bar men and were just generally chatting to him when one of the scary bar men came out and stood next to us obviously waiting for us to finish our conversation so we told the nice man that he was one of the scary men and just with us and pretend we were having a normal conversation until he left, and the nice man said yes of course in fact if we walk away he´ll probably go back to the bar so we walked off and found out that hes learning english and portuguese at college and so we invited him to elens birthday lunch tomorrow along with the drunk girls we met on thursday and told him to bring english speaking friends and we´ll all have a very random and fun time.
we then went in search of another less creepy and likely to get kidnapped and raped type pub .
we walked into the centre singing bohemien rhapsody [its quickly becoming the soundtrack to this trip] and after asking a friendly - neighbourhood- gun - carrying policemen bar? with beer? who pointed us in the right direction and we sat and drank and ate crisps and played cards until we were cold and then we walked home.
somehow we always manage to befriend random people and luckily most of them so far have actually been really kind :]
tonight for dinner weve got some kind of bean arrangement which has been sitting on the table for half an hour because i dont dare to eat it. it looks intimidating. might just have a ham roll instead :/
off to the refuge again tomorrow woop :]
Love,
Bethnal x
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