Songerie and Jaco´s 50th
Chaser 2
Yvonne Chapman
Sun 27 Jul 2014 19:40
Puerto La Cruz Venezuela and have become good friends and sailed a lot
together. They arrived in Medregal Village near the end of June and
departed as soon as possible for Puerto La Cruz, in order to celebrate
Yvonnes birthday. It was no ground breaking birthday, had that last year
with the family in Spain. Nevertheless they arrived the day before, in time
to buy some meat for a super Barbie. Paul from decanter joined us for
celebrations, it was his birthday too July 1st.
This weekend was Jaco´s birthday, a biggy though still quite a youngster at
50. The plan had been to checkout and sail to the islands for a beach
barbeque and onto Bonaire, but in order to checkout they need their
passports which have been given to the authorities to obtain a visa for
Bonaire. Unfortunately they haven´t got the returned yet, so leaving turned
out not to be a good option. Plan B was to get away from the marina,
somewhere. They decided they would like to go to Mochima and visit our
friends in restaurant El Puerto Viejo owned and run by Carlos Rojas and his
family. We have spent many evening in his restaurant, the best in Mochima.
Carlos organized a couple of rooms for us to stay in his Posada. Carlos is a
local artist with some international fame. His restaurant and Posada is
decorated with paintings in his typical style.
So, we arrived Friday, unpacked and took a couple of photos of the Posada,
OK we took turns in the Posada, we take one of you and you take one of us
etc. Carlos arranged a boat trip to a nearby beach for the afternoon before
returning for a meal in the evening. We had a great meal and a few rums,
even a bottle of wine. The following day back in tourist mode we took
another boat to a beach further away, not so many people but a lovely bay
and the snorkeling was good too. We had lunch on the beach, which was
excellent, squid, octopus, fish, plantains with cheese, salad and a bottle
of champagne and a bottle of rum on ice. It´s amazing what they cook up in
these places and we´ve noted that it would be a wonderful anchorage for the
night once we finally start sailing again.
Our boat driver returned to collect us at the prearranged time of 3.30.
Half an our and we were back in the village of Mochima, we wobbled back to
our room and took a rest, well Yvonne and I did, Jaco and Christelle we had
to wake up. These youngsters just can´t handle their booze. So, after a
quick ´sundowner´we walked to the restaurant for our evening meal. We
decided to have a starter, something light like a fish soup, wrong. The
bowl of soup arrived but included a vegetable market and a whole fish that
was hanging out of the bowl! It was good but we´d already ordered our main
meal which we thought maybe big, it wasn´t, it was huge! We tried washing
it down with rum and anything else liquidy but it beat us all. So we had to
ask for a doggy bag, therefore tonights meal on board is taken care of, a
fishy pasta maybe. Carlos had also prepared a birthday cake, which looked
very good but we really had to force it down. We left the restaurant way
past our bedtimes and returned to our rooms for a night cap or two.
Our two evening meals with wine, cuba libres and daiquirys together with the
two rooms for 2 nights totaled 9000 Bolivares or 90 Euros for the 4 of us.
How bad is that?
So, we´ve had a good weekend and now we are back on Chaser2 and Jaco and
Christelle back on Songerie. Next week we hope to be looking to leave, then
hopefully we can celebrate our anniversary on August 12th somewhere in the
Venezuelan Islands with one of Songeries barbeque specials and more fish and
lobster, fingers crossed.
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