15.3.26

Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful mums out there.

To treat us 3 fabulous mums we decided to have breakfast at Benos, a place we spotted a couple of days ago.

Actually that’s a complete lie. We didn’t even know it was Mother’s Day until we began receiving texts and calls.

It was heaving in there. Being the only foreigners we had a lot of stares while the staff juggled furniture to find us a table.

We ended up by a speaker, the music was actually great, all British music, there’s nothing like a bit of Tom Jones with your toast. ( my mums favourite hoovering music)

Despite it being great music the volume was overwhelming. We’re definitely all turning into whinging old people. Our latest catchphrase has become ‘and another thing’. I guess it’s inevitable as we are all 6 weeks older than when we arrived.

We discussed how to sort the world out the other day. I would start at the top – I have a long list. Sharon would start with all the bottom feeders that contribute nothing.

The war in the Middle East of course is a huge concern. We share scary stories that we’ve read overnight when we unite first thing. Not really a good practice, we need to stay positive but it’s inevitable in the circumstances.

Anyway, back to the whinging breakfast club..We waited over 30 minutes to have orders taken and almost a further 30 for 4 coffees to arrive. To be fair the menu warned us!

It was fab coffee and worth the wait. We’ve had a lot of dire coffee in the last 6 weeks.

The others were healthy, opting for eggs benedict whilst I spotted a smoothie bowl.

I was admiring the selection of marshmallows and cookies. The lady that makes them brought us some little sample cubes to try. They were delicious but expensive.

By now we had changed tables to avoid the speaker but actually ended up at the point where 2 speakers met. It was OK, the music was good and we’d adapted to the volume a bit. A musician arrived, he proceeded to sing a series of covers, he was very good but equally loud.

The food was OK, I had a massive caffeine and sugar hit from the dark chocolate and espresso. The others felt mildly queasy for the rest of the day, they think from ordering 2 coffees each. I’m not convinced.

The moral to that story is that chocolate is healthier than eggs.

The cover story said slow coffees and we definitely stayed longer than we planned.

Off to the beach. I asked these men if I could take their photo. I love it.

The sea breeze was lovely, Sharon and Kevin played in the waves for ages, the sea felt hot. Liz and I stayed much later.

We saw clouds!!!

My app is showing 15% chance of rain on Wednesday. Omg, that would be fabulous.

On the way back, hours later, the fishermen were still preparing their nets. No way I could sit in that position for so many hours. Must be back breaking, and I’m sure it’s for little financial reward. It’s very humbling and puts our grumbles into perspective.

Showers and regroup, off to Leda tonight as they might be having live music. That means is chicken Makhani night. So much temptation on the menu, but have to have the Makhani. An initial panic, the menu is limited due to the gas supply issues India are experiencing because of the Iranian situation.

Many restaurants have had to close, it’s very sad.

Our Makhani arrived but luke warm. It was the chefs birthday and I think he must have prepared it before they called him out of the kitchen to play happy birthday and bang pots and pans.

Good old microwave and it was perfect.

They had a singer, very good and such a lovely man. He chatted to us for ages, really interesting and well travelled. He had great stories from his cruise ship days.

We told him about our planned route home. Sorry, where?

Here.. I showed him a map. ‘Well it must exist if it’s on a map’ he said laughing and bemused.

He knew of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan is bigger so it must be OK. Great logic.

In other news, 2 of the flights we’ll take a week today took off. Too soon to be excited but YAYYYYYY!!!!!