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31/3/2011
Checked out after the dodgy noises last night and found a cheaper place! 1.50 each for a better hut with a mosquito net but without the hammock and half a sea view!
Went shopping for embroided country flags and managed to get 24 from the 50rupee asking price down to 20 each. Enquired about scuba diving and golf which were no-goes before having a drink down the beach with the girls.
Had a super pizza for two quid, chilled on the beach and then bought some beers to take on our 200rupee boat trip for sunset. Saw a dolphin, watched the sun disappear and fished using handreels. Bargain!
Anne having never fished before caught a fish and an eel! The rest of us had nothing. I had plenty of nibbles and lost two monsters that were hooked for five minutes and then wormed themselves free! Neither me, Chris, Anna, two other tourists or the two guides caught anything (apart from a couple of our lines getting tangled underwater!). Was a good laugh though sat in the bay of an island watching the sunset and waiting for a catch.
Went to Cuba restaurant with the girls playing too much 's***head' (card game), eating nachos and enchiladas before experiencing my first silent disco.
Just inland at the end of the beach was Alpha's where I forked out almost a fiver to rent the headphones to listen to either one of the two stations available being played by the DJs. It was weird at first with lots of tourists (mainly Londoners) talking but then putting their headphones on and looking ridiculous dancing away, but that's what it's about! After a couple of whiskey-cokes (drinking the one I'd seen advertised in the cricket), I was soon up with everyone dancing. But as soon as you take the headphones off and you only hear people moving it's really odd, and than as soon as you pop them back on, you think you're back in a club! Everyone's signalling to each other which station to listen to when a good song comes on, and for me I was just all about the dance and trancey stuff, not all the indie and old-school cheese rubbish. We were in a club after all!
I remember walking into start with and seeing some crazy middle-aged European with long hair going mental, pretty much dancing alone. Fair play to him, he was there until the end and 'avin' it large on the stage when the likes of Oasis came on! Poor old Chris on the other hand didn't bring enough money and I didn't have enough left for him so he just sat chatting to people and laughing at the rest of us tearing up the dancefloor.
Was loving it at the end with a lot of the tunes I'd been hearing last summer, pretty much taking me back home. We walked home with couple of girls messing around, enjoying the starry sky and going for a 6.30am dip in the sea.
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