Almost like Eat, Pray, Love only not so much.
Semana Santa is a religious holiday but this year I can't tell you much about the religious part because Heinz and I took the entire week off. We stepped away from the city to stay at a rented beach house.
We both got the week off even though the actual holidays are only from Thursday to Sunday.
Our plan for the week was to have no plans at all.
The house we stayed at is a private apartment next to a bigger property. It's located in a private beach called La Leona in La Libertad. It's about a 5-minute drive from El Tunco.
Even though we love staying at hotels, for longer stays we prefer to rent a place where we can cook. I find that whenever I'm away from home, after a couple of days my stomach gets really upset from eating out.
We found this house through VRBO. A website where you find vacation rentals by owners. It's a pretty cool option if you like to travel.
In terms of food we definitely over packed but a girl just needs to have options. We brought fruit, veggies, quinoa, avocados -because they deserve a special mention- soba noddles, beer and wine. You know, basic vacation stuff.
Of course I forgot the most basic things: salt and cooking oil.
We checked-in on Monday and truth be told we did nothing but eat, read and sleep.
My book kept me quiet for a total of six days. Six!
Even Heinz was amazed at how quiet I'd been.
That was the best part of the entire vacation: Ma' book.
I'll share my thoughts on it in another post so I don't make this one unbearably long.
On with the fun part. Here are some photos of the casita by the beach.
...yeah, I know we've gone a little overboard with the fisheye.
At nights I used to come out of hiding and properly interact with Heinz. He wanted to share with me facts he had learned in his history book (I roll my eyes at his type of reading material). This was the perfect time to do it. When I was away from my Murakami book.
We also played Scrabble.
And just so you know if there was a Salvadorean Scrabble version I would kick Heinz' little German butt.
I miss the wooden and velvet Scrabble! This was all plastic. I guess recession takes its toll even on the board games industry.
Sigh.
Stay tuned if you are interested in reading my thoughts on 1Q84 by Murakami. I didn't know but apparently it caused quite a stir in the editorial world.
Has any of you read it?
PS. We did go to church on Sunday. We had a proper Easter Sunday.
