No smoking please - 8th April 2009

For the past 8 days and with the amount of shops we have passed and indeed entered not until today I have managed to find an ash tray which I need for my smoking habit at the apartment as I have been using a plate all this time and the damn plate puts the cigarette out.

We pass a Turkish shop and see some pipes on the outside so we head into the shop and long and behold an ashtray my ashtray jejeje. When I go to the counter to pay, the attendant says 45. I thought “that’s cheap” so I ask again and this time she says 45,000 pesos which roughly equates to £12.60. My jaw dropped and my facial expression showed it. Not much I could do though but pay for it! As I need it for my bad habit. The attendand did realise that I was reluctant to buy the ashtray because of the price so he offered us two turkish eyes to stick on our mobiles to protects you from being jinxed by bad people. Not much need for it as the damn expensive ashtray has 4 of them stuck on each side jejeje but a nice jesture nonetheless so we oblige.

After this we went to the cinema and watched Dragon Ball Evolution, the cinema was world class even the toilets were very modern and extremely well maintained.

The movie was good and had a few parts which were very funny in true Dragon Ball style. After the movie we had a quick dinner at McDonalds (yes they are everywhere).

Oh another difference between McDonalds and the ones I've seen in Europe is that the sauces are all free, you get self service tubs and an infinite amount of little containers which you can fill up with ketchup, mayo, bbq, mustard, jalapeño’s and gherkins.

After McDonalds we visit a shop called Pepe Ganga to buy a hair comb for my gatita and I found a kettle which I have been looking for to boil water for coffee. You will be surprised to know that in the land of coffee (and other stuff I know) there are NO KETTLES, no where, not even online. I suppose they are not tea drinkers and hence there would be a need for a kettle. We use kettles to boil water for tea & coffee but they use percolators and not kettles.

To my shock I did find one in this shop and guess what, what a rip-off, it was 286,500 Pesos which is £80.70. So needless to say after my ashtray expenses I didn’t buy the kettle and will continue to use a pan to heat the water. We do have a percolator at the apartment and once in a while I make myself a scrumptious red label 100% Colombian coffee.

Anyways just to end today’s blog and as I am writing this my gatita has just finished washing some dirty dishes and on the top cupboard guess what she pulls out, have a guess, come on guess..... An F*ING ASHTRAY, lets just leave it at that shall we.