Day 4 Saturday – Time to be (somewhat) mellow

Wake up around 10 am. It’s still raining. Eat breakfast, and go back to bed. It rains til about 1:30 pm. We eat lunch at a local joint by the hotel. This time soup, salad, main course and coffee are about $2 per person. We wander around the city more, and I sleep some more. It’s a good day to be tired and hung-over.

Have dinner at El Santisimo. This is a really lovely restaurant, and it’s décor and menu have not-so-subtle nods to religion, ie the desserts on the menu are named after the 7 deadly sins. Great food, with nice presentation. Dinner for 2 was about $80, with a appetizers, entrées, dessert, coffee and a bottle of wine. Expensive compared to lunch, but this was probably the best fancy meal we had.

While we’re walking around Old Town later, this guy approaches us, invites us to a nightclub, and then he says that he has “everything you need.” Presumably he wasn’t referring to umbrellas and flashlights. Basically this is the first and only time we’re offered drugs.

We wind up at a small club called Quemada; they have a Cuban band and a solo male singer. Then we’re trying to find a German bar, and we do come across a beer garden but it’s blaring salsa music and is fairly heinous. The bar we’re looking for is actually next door and it’s a much better scene.

One of the cathedrals in Old Town.


Fountain in Plaza de Bolivar.