A Room With A View

A Room With A View

Having settled into the hostel (Luna's Castle) I snapped a quick pick of the view out my window, not too shabby if you ask me. First night was fun. I probably shouldn't have stayed up till three, but I couldn't sleep anyway so it wouldn't have mattered.

I took a quick jaunt around Casco Viejo today, it was ahh... interesting. Everyone keeps talking about how gentrified it has become so I was expecting the area to be a lot like Cartegena in Columbia. How wrong I was. While there are a good number of nice buildings, fancy cafes, and of course street vendors selling thier wares. There was also a disturbing number of crubling buildings and the police manning most of the corners almost made me feel more unsafe than safe. I walked through most of the old town then sat down in a nice little cafe just outside of the touristy area to enjoy some tasty fried chicken, rice, and beans. Little did I know that this would be the end of my stroll as a sudden downpour complete with seemingly softball size drops of rain rolled in. The rain was so bad i couldn't even make it outside long enough to hail a cab. So I did what everyone else was doing, ordered a cup of coffee and attempted to wait out the rain. Luckily about a half hour later the rain let up enough that I could jog back to the safety of the hostel, and it is here that I sit writing this. So much for December being dry season. Even worse, I am being told that the rain has been so bad it closed the canal a few weeks back for only the third time in history. More relevant to me though the rain has washed out some roads and some busses arent running. Hopefully its all lies, but if not things could get interesting pretty quick.