Lesson 7 - The Order Of The Ponta Preta

It feels like the world. No more thinking about the dementors .. no worries about the screaming mandrake - no worries around the captures ... know what .. its starting to feel like a holiday ... yes really ... 

Yesterday going through reception ... a piano played quietly in the bar ... an empty bar .. and my mind wondered to "The Shinning" when Jack Nicholson walks into the bar for the second time and is met by a bartender who offers him drinks on the house .. a piano plays quietly in the background ..... well you get the picture ... right? 

Somehow ... there is something on the back of my mind - a black cloud on the horizon .. you know when you can clearly see that everything is OK - but yet there is a unsettling sense of doom, of an event that is about to happen that will change the world as you know it .. but you cant just put your finger on it ... 

Its a lovely sunny day. there is a long golden sand beach we are on called Ponta Preta - but its a long beach and there is a restaurant somewhere down this beach that is well priced, yet has a reputation of good food. Its pretty in accessible form most directions - but its a 15 min. walk away from where we are. 

Not going into town yet - well come on ... would you take the risk ? so a sit by the pool and off - down the beach to find this restaurant ..

Its a 15 mins walk across sand - but a nice walk - golden sand - and a peninsular that is a hot spot for kite surfers with constant waves that crash against rocks .. its an interesting thing to see .. but not to do...

Past this point - is the Ponta Preta bar restaurant ... its nice - in the middle of nowhere - but as promised in the write ups - good food. Next to the resaurant are some of the most amazing sand dunes ... seem to be there in the middle of nowhere and they block the road into a big Riu hotel, and from there you are in the town. The hotel looks like a Moorish walled city .. very strange ... 

So a walk along this golden beach - up the sand dunes - and back. is in order..... getting ready to set off on this "epic adventure" .. we are joined by Barbie doll and Ken ,,, well as they got closer it was more like Barbie Hag and Crusty Ken .... Its very hard to keep a straight face when the all you have done for 3 days is hide (with zero success!!)  They were pretty typical of the people who wandered around Cape Verde ... well the tourists anyway. 

Apart from being chased up the beach by a Ginger Tom who thought she was a guard dog.. and was bigger than most ... it was a walk - then back to hotel tourturetoga Melia ... for an early evening beer and a night in ....

Lesson 7 - It was our extreme loyalty that had called Ponta Preta to us .. and it took a real spiffing walk to put that out of the hat today Harry !!!!