After a tough week of using our brains again at Spanish school, we were utterly delighted to find ourselves chilling out in San Pedro at Lago de Atitlan. We found a great cheap hotel - with a brand new room, we were the first ever inhabitants - and just had to wait a few hours for the owner to finish tinkering with a screw driver. Best of all, we had cable TV! So Gary was happy as Larry to be able to chill out watching movies after dinner each night as the rain poured down.
We also had the fortunate timing of arriving on Sunday just in time for "British Roast dinner night" - fabulous and extremely well accompanied by 30cents cuba libres.
We were quite happy to lounge around for a while and didn´t do a great deal - we took a boat trip across the lake to visit San Marcos, a strange little hippie community, offering all sorts of wacky new-age spiritualistic stuff.
We also did one strenous, but very worthwhile hike up the alternately named Indian´s nose or Mayan´s nose. Once at the top, we had amazing views over the entire lake and across to the three volcanos flanking the lake.
Much of the rest of the time was spent hanging out on the decks of various restaurants watching the world go by on the lake. It was tough to leave !
