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Our last day on the beach. We were packed up, our goodbyes said, and ready for the taxi coming at noon just after 11 a.m. We called to confirm Ahmed was coming, and seemed to get a positive reply. When he hadn't arrived around 12:30 p.m. we called again and had George, the VP of the Community speak to him. Twenty minutes and he would be there he told George. 1:30 still no luck, and at that point we couldn't get hold of him as he had his phoned turned off. So around 2:15 we started looking for alternatives. There was a white guy, Simon, with an NGO who offered to take us to Lumley from where we could get a cab, then George came up with his driver and as he was heading into the market in Lumley, he came with us. A little costly and more than the standard fare,150,000 Leonies instead of 120,000 but by that point we were getting desperate. The road down the Peninsula is really crazy, but most of it between River No. 2 and Lumley is under construction in one way or another. South of us, it deteriorated quite badly. The locals are hopeful that it will be complete soon.
We checked into the Hotobah Lodge again and went for a walk to the ATM, success, so now we had 200,000 extra....but it soon goes! We also tried the Internet, but it didn't work We had a nice dinner in the restaurant where the truck group and I had drinks on our last night. The challenges in the hotel are the Internet is so slow you can't get into anything, and the hydro is inconsistent, but other than that it is new, and clean, and quite comfortable.
Our last day on the beach. We were packed up, our goodbyes said, and ready for the taxi coming at noon just after 11 a.m. We called to confirm Ahmed was coming, and seemed to get a positive reply. When he hadn't arrived around 12:30 p.m. we called again and had George, the VP of the Community speak to him. Twenty minutes and he would be there he told George. 1:30 still no luck, and at that point we couldn't get hold of him as he had his phoned turned off. So around 2:15 we started looking for alternatives. There was a white guy, Simon, with an NGO who offered to take us to Lumley from where we could get a cab, then George came up with his driver and as he was heading into the market in Lumley, he came with us. A little costly and more than the standard fare,150,000 Leonies instead of 120,000 but by that point we were getting desperate. The road down the Peninsula is really crazy, but most of it between River No. 2 and Lumley is under construction in one way or another. South of us, it deteriorated quite badly. The locals are hopeful that it will be complete soon.
We checked into the Hotobah Lodge again and went for a walk to the ATM, success, so now we had 200,000 extra....but it soon goes! We also tried the Internet, but it didn't work We had a nice dinner in the restaurant where the truck group and I had drinks on our last night. The challenges in the hotel are the Internet is so slow you can't get into anything, and the hydro is inconsistent, but other than that it is new, and clean, and quite comfortable.
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