There is a life outside the happy hippie village

Yesterday was a very long and boring working day and as soon as I reached my daily quota, I closed my lap top to jump in the sea and enjoy the last minutes of daylight. And it does work, 20 min in the sea clears up a translation fucked brain and instead of ending up in a vegetative state in front of TV, which is what usually happens after such a day in Vienna, I was all up and ready to go out. There is an Italian fencing maestro teaching fencing classes for a month in the happy hippie village and he and two of his pupils invited me for a drink. We went to the Club Naval de Cartagena, a fancy fancy and very beautiful place. It was quite a change to go from hippie style to members only in about 10 min. The Club Naval is located in Castillo Grande, the most fancy part of the modern town. It has a beautiful terrace with a great view of the bay of Cartagena. And we happened to arrive just in time for the happy hour. So, Mojito Cubano it was. A very lovely evening, I learned a lot about the city and had my first taste of how the partying is going to be like. Sorry, no pics, it was dark and the Mojitos didn't help a steady hand...
In other news: I got the place in the center!!! I am one happy girl, should be moving in next Wednesday. It is absolutely not cheap but within a reasonable range. I gave up the idea of a cheap place, the prices are similar to Vienna, nothing to do about it. And I really don't feel like living in a crappy place when I spend so much time working at home. :)
A bit more about the different parts of Cartagena: 1) Centro Historico: the 13 km par inside the city walls, the old Colonial town 2) Boca Grande: New part of town, consisting of huge condo towers, directly at the beach 3) Castillo Grande: the same as Boca Grande, but even more expensive 4) Lagito: The same as Boca Grande but in a cheap, all inclusive and eighties kind of way 5) Marbella: Also at the beach but nothing fancy about it
Word of the day: fumigar. After the rain, two days ago, nasty mosquitos showed up (that's the ugly side effect of all the beautiful trees and plants), so the owner decided it's time for a round of fumigation. All ecologists among you, stop reading. This means spraying nasty DDT like stuff all around the place, it stinks for hours, you can't breath, but.... None of the crappy bugs survives that. So, yeah to fumigation. ;)
A few random pics from a park in the center this morning:

And I am off to work, lazy me...