Angela and Ryan worked the afternoon after breakfast until dinner time when we went downtown for dinner. We went to PIE where of course they serve savoury pie.
The waiter and part owner was hilarious his name is Poly and said "what the heck, his father was into fabric i.e. polyester". More jokes, he comes from England and then told us his sad saga about his love life and missing his dog (the ex took it). Music was great spanning decades of favourites for all and we played a game using the app Shazam that identifies the music and performance, a guessing game which I was rubbish at but enjoyed. Anyway it was an entertaining evening. The entrance to this restaurant has dangerously narrow steep steps but we all made it safely.
Next morning downtown to *ice cream* for crepe and omelette which was okay but the people and dog watching was just as good as the marina. Work again in the afternoon for them but I went to a used book store and spent a lot of time there hunting the dusty shelves, happy, happy! This is a store I've been to before, different people at the tills but feels like a musty, old person's forgotten library. It is not, but books are shelved by language and it's a treasure hunt because they are not filed any other way except loosely by subject. Fun for me, always the bookworm. Dinner was at Dumpling House, they had been closed for vacation until the end of March, the proprietor is a friendly Vietnamese? woman who treats everyone like a friend and shares bits of her life with her customers. The food is top notch, familiar from the first year they started the business and we found it. Yummy! Different also to regular fare either here or in Sevilla.
A general observation is that many, many people have dogs and since Angela and Ryan are "dog crazy" they always get a pet or scratch when walking by.
Next day, now Wednesday, breakfast is at Viva close by, a touristic place but the waitress was friendly from the Philippines, living here since she was young and a nurse for her "other" job. Food good, service good, sunny day and none of that nippy breeze. Angela and Ryan went back to work and I went downtown with the intention of getting the Lagos train on wheels, something I enjoyed the last time, nope. Decided to look for sandals instead and voila found some.
That evening we met with Emily and Lee and a couple of their friends not at the place they intended, but a modern beach seafood restaurant called Barraca in Burgau, their home town. Everything was excellent and had a modern twist on traditional fare. Views to the cliffs and ocean were uninterrupted, the sunset was beautiful but nothing can rival Freiburg's except the ocean in front!
I think Lee is a history buff, certainly interested in the past of their town Burgau. Next post shows some ancient photos of how the town was in the past, a fishing village.
