first night in Monterrico

Henriks desperate need to have a good suntan to show up in Sweden led us to the sun safe Monterrico on the southern coast of Guatemala. Together with Henrik, Tania and Larry we took the chicken bus down to the Pacific Coast. It was Saturday afternoon and the atmosphere was on top. Before that bus ride I had not been aware that grown ups can have so much fun and behave just like the kinda teenagers a Swedish bus driver would kick out immediately. Halfway we lost Larry, since he decided to stay and spend the evening with some ladies he met on the bus. So the 3 of us continued to a dark , hot and moist Saturday night Montterico. The little town was busy and all lower budget options were full, all ecxept one. It was run by Vito, an decadent Italian who sat sipping beer in the bar when we arrived. We were given a room that was really basic standard, and it actually felt quite alright at first. We were so hot and sweaty that we jumped in the pool as fast as you can say bikini. Henrik jumped from the trampoline that almost broke (he is not that fat at all) and I almost fell through to the ground since some ladder was missing. It seemed like there had passed years since anyone had done effort to make things work at that place. We returned to our room smelling intensely of color to discover that a large family of termites were also staying in our room.. They sent a drunk guy in with a poison pump and he was smoking a cigarette while trying to pump the poison wherever it happened to land and almost tipping over when trying to reach the far away corners. After he left I took up my travel guide to read about Monterrico accomodation. Before even getting to the actual reviews our guidebook said; Avoid the Hotel Boule Beach as regular thefts have been reported I asked Henrik and Tania about the name of the hotel, and since none of them knew I stepped out to find out, and to my not so great suprice the place we were staying at was indeed Hotel Boule Beach. We fell asleep under awkwardly dirty mosquito nets listeninbg to someone vomiting ib one of the rooms and people having sex in the other. We moved out the next morning.


decided it was time for some handicraft