Thursday, April 14, 2016

Damn, DAMN, D A M N,

Was typing for half hour, almost done with today's blog, something downloaded in the background, and rebooted the tablet, and I lost it all.  I have search for quite a while, but can't find it, can't find drafts...

So here's the abridged version:  had city tour this morning, guide very nice, much better at English than I am in Spanish, but I got little out of tour because she was striving for words to express herself, and would describe stuff in Spanish for all the other tourists for a minute or more, then she'd turn to me and haltingly say five or ten words, and often,  'that's the...' And no info about it.   Tried to mail some stuff home, but it costs over fifty bucks, forget it, it all comes with me, but in my carry on's , not my checked bag.  Walked new areas around here.  Then ran across the street to a big church... And boy was I ever surprised!!!  It must be two hundred years old judging from architecture, statues, building materials and the old style internal courtyard within the walls...very unique, historical.  The reason I crossed the street was the sign beside the church which said colonial museum.  It was closed, so I am going back tomarrow.  And as I was leaving, a whole bunch of people were going past the church museum part of the building thru an "alley" I followed them on a whim, and the alley opened up into an 1800's neighborhood of two and three story buildings of houses with ornate balconies, door and window treatments, small shops and restaurants, businesses on the first floor of some of the houses.  Wow!   And all of this one building away from the busiest street in town, and across the street from my hotel.  It is about three or four square blocks of antiquity, two hundred feet from hectic 2016

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