Stargazer4moon's blog: "It depends on what occurs on the way."

I’ve just drunk a pint of water to rehydrate me and get rid of the startings of a nagging headache after a night of boozing. It began with a pre-dinner vino tinto followed by two small glasses with a lovely dinner. On our way out we were attracted to a young couple who began talking to us and so we stopped to talk. This led to joining them for a drink or two and a nice chat about so many different subjects that destiny must have had a hand in the introduction. ++== We finally left the dining room as the waiters wanted to end their night a either get home or go and enjoy the last hours of the day. Our new friends were hard working lawyers having a much needed break from a hectic week at work so I imagine to them the waiters have an easy life as they work reasonable shift hours, in fact they are very well looked after. ++++~ We got back to the room in one piece, all was quiet baring the occasional noise from the undergrowth along the wall and in the gardens just outside our room door. I do remember walking into the rooms to find more canapés, chocolates and the beds turned down, just about remember doing my expensive to maintain teeth and getting into bed so it was not such a heavy session after all. +++ This morning has again dawned bright and in the pool I can see the berry brown Animator cleaning the pool with a huge net, another regular daily routine. He seems to forget to clean the middle section where the Jacuzzi is and where aerobics and games are played because when I swim into that part there are always dead beetles and bits of the foliage from the edges of the pool floating there. Another boy has just finished the irritating sweeping that he starts the day with, a much needed chore to get rid of all the sand, cement dust and grit that gets walked in from various places around the hotel grounds along into the rooms. +++ The chefs are setting up their cookware for the eggs & bacon cooking just past the pool. We have nice view of them from our room but their view of us is obscured by palm trees and various bits of concrete constructions from bridges to fountains and of course garden beds. The squirrels have just woken up following the eternal dawn chorus and are chattering quite happily this morning for a change. There is of course the gentle phwerfs emitted from the Man With the Limp as he sleeps in what is probably the longest sleep he has had since being here. I feel there could well be a quiet day on the cards. ++++ It is Saturday though and quiet might not be the order of the day for the week-end Sri Lankan visitors to the hotel as they are here to enjoy their break and quite rightly too. Tonight we have an excursion booked to see the Elephants dancing, they are dressed in fine regalia and it has been going on for almost a century now. It will be interesting to see and reminds me that the camera needs charging up. +++++ The beach massage was good as usual but he seemed to go mad with the oils so I had to wash my shirt last night as it would not have lasted another wearing. That has dried thanks to the dehumidifier which went of during the night as it was full. It is very efficient. Still that is by the by. At the massage parlour, a rather dark room with no fan to cool, the boy had made a hole in the wooden bed but not in the mattress so he has to fold that back under then put towels around the hole so that my face is not on bare wood. He has learned that he can do a better head massage if he seats me on the plastic chair after doing the body massage. It is almost as good as an Indian barber but nobody massages the head quite like the one in Goa who had travelled down from Delhi for the season. Ahhh. +++ I have to teach him to wash his hands after he has finished my body and before doing my face as the thought of having hands that have been all over my feet on my face is quite a yerg one. He certainly has brought the feelings back to my fingertips, has the gift of the third eye but not the refinement of a spa therapist. It is not expensive though so they cannot afford to offer spa facilities on they monies they earn, About £5.00 for an hour's full body massage which is not much if you are only doing one massage a day due to there being so few tourists and far too many massage establishments chasing the shortage. +++ Well the squirrels have fully woken now calling out for food so Mum must be out foraging for the bits of food that guests have thrown out for them which is probably not much either. There are plenty of Russian tourists and of course Germans but they are not forthcoming with food for the wildlife. It is lucky there is a Russian contingency here or the hotel would be empty but they do not tip and are still learning from their recent introduction to travelling, which as you know broadens the mind but not necessarily the manners. +++ As there is now some movement outside the room with accompanying work tool sounds I think it is time to wake the dead and get some breakfast.