Last Sunday I escaped the heat of Granada and headed to Jinotepe for the day. Whilst not a lot to report it was nice to go to a place where I was the only gringo and get to talk to some friendly Jinotepenos. My Birkenstocks have done some miles over the last years and were looking truely dead and that´s where Miguel (photo right) stepped in and half an hour of stitching and polishing and 5 cordobas (25 cents) later they were looking as good as new. 25 cents for such a job, I felt truely guilty.
What a nice guy.
His shoeshine neighbour was a friendly sort as well however I was unable to decifer his name from the alcoholic drivel he insisted on sharing with me. Once he had had enough talking he went back to his stash of aguadiente cunningly hidden amougst his shoe-polish. Aguadiente is a cane sugar based liquor which is just one very small step above drinking petrol. It is however very cheap and the scurge of Central America. He was nice enough to offer me a swig but trust me unless you want to go blind don´t go there!
(drunk shoe-shine guy)
1 comment:
drunk shoe guy is painfully hillarious. Jeeez, that aguadiente must be some potent stuff. I say, "good exercise of judgement, uncle nige."
Just wanted to let you know that I've been enjoying your blogs tremendously. It's so good to see and read about what you've been up to. Maybe if you're down there until the summer we can meet up somewhere south of the USA for a spell.
Bobby
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