FIVE DAYS IN JINOTEPE
BOB, CAMILLE AND MOLLY HANG OUT WITH CECILE AND SILVIO
July 13 through July 18, 2005
A SPECIAL WEEK
We just happened to be in Jinotepe, a town of 40,000 during the celebration of their patron saint.
THE STREET
This is the street outside Cecile and Silvio’s house early in the morning, before the traffic gets going.
THE HOUSE
Camille looks down the street from the garage door.
INSIDE
The house is very open with enough space to park the land rover. Not everyone can sit in the living room and look at their car!
LAUNDRY
The washing “machine” in the back yard is a cement table with a built-in washboard that doubles as a upper-arm toner. Molly discovered how ridiculously easy it was to always have clean clothes washing a few things every morning. She rubs the clothes with a bar of aqua-colored laundry soap, runs them across the washboard and then hangs them on the line to dry.
TO MARKET AND TO WORK
Molly, Cecile and Camille head down the street with Silvio in the lead. Cecile and Silvio are heading to work and Molly and Camille to the market to buy a few things for dinner.
ABUNDANCE
This kind of selection of fresh fruits and vegetables is typical of rural villages, like Jinotepe.
It was a real pleasure to walk to the market each day and pick out the best of everything for the evening meal.
There is always something new to see, smell or taste.
Molly turns to ask Camille if she saw the dog behind them. Many of the dogs carry unusual scars.
DAY TRIPPING
Faced with a four day weekend, Cecile and Silvio proposed a day trip to Casares and then a walk along the beach to La Boquita. For more photos of this enjoyable trip, please click on Day Tripping to Casares.
A LASTING SOUVENIR
The turtle Cecile bought in La Boquita found freedom in the garden later that evening. Cecile bought it for 20 cordovas ($1.30) from an old woman at the beach cafe at La Boquita.
Silvio has a wonderfully dry sense of humor and I believe he was saying something about his new status as father of the turtle when we snapped this photo.
HECTOR TUGA
Tortuga is turtle in Spanish, so Cecile and Silvio named their new pet Hector Tuga. Hector now has a companion, Victor Tuga, who was brought over from the yard across the street by their neighbor, Gerardo. They are both Central American Wood Turtles.