Day 4 Lazy Day

Today I had planned to dive but the weather is looking ominous.

Juma the divemaster said that normally when the tide comes in the weather gets worse so diving was cancelled.

I therefore spent a frustrating morning trying to upload photos to my blog site. This should have been a straightforward task; however…

• My tablet would not connect to the internet although my iPhone would
• In order to update media to my blog, I would need to transfer it from my tablet to phone. Easy you would think
• Connect phone to tablet, select folder structure and transfer. No!
• Transfer photos to SD card and upload to phone. No!
• Are photos on card? Yes!
• Think……
• Notice one photo has uploaded to phone but not the rest….um?
• On editing had changed file name and put ‘a’ on end. Remove letter ‘a’ and voila! It only took 2 hours – grrrrr!

I celebrated with a beer, saw the weather had improved so headed for a relaxing afternoon by the pool. The pool is lovely – not ‘chemically’ and a perfect temperature.

There are only 4 other guests here. One couple on honeymoon from Sweden and one couple (keen divers) from Germany. This evening we all ate together and it was a very funny evening.

Conversation centred on insects, particularly how useless all the insect repellents are against the mosquitos and how ineffective the mosquito coils in the room are. We noted that round the table the only person being bitten was Christiane. We decided she was the best mosquito deterrent and should be employed by the hotel to sleep in guests’ bathrooms. It was also decided that the mosquito coils were actually attractants designed by the locals to keep mosquitos away from them.

Talk turned to spiders – many a good story there but the best was about Christiane’s friend who was terrified of spiders. Apparently she phoned her husband to say there was a tarantula in the house. He scoffed and said it was not a tarantula. He was not coming home and she would need to deal with it. She thought long and hard and decided the vacuum cleaner was the best remedy. The spider was huge and got stuck in the nozzle…. When her husband came home he unblocked the hoover and disposed of the spider. 2 days later a note was posted through their door. A neighbour had been on holiday and their tarantula had escaped. Had anyone seen it??!! We found this particularly amusing after a few glasses of wine.