Sunday 5 February 2012
We lad a light breck’n, but that was fine because we would be having an exquisite lunch a la the ever generous Clive and Annie: chili over rice topped with plain yoghurt, prepared by Clive, and crepes with a still hot fruit syrup drizzled on top- all we could say was, WOW! Nicole later commented that they were the best crepes she’d ever had. Annie had gotten Clive cooking lessons, and it sure showed.
That night the couple came over for a few rounds of Boggle, which they had never played before. We added a few British words to our vernacular such as ‘rill’ (like a hill) and others. Nicole spared no mercy for the newbies, but after a few warm-up rounds Clive and Annie held their own.
As an honorary New Mexican (because of her cast-iron stomach), Dian put piri piri (a super hot sauce from Portugal) on her food. Nicole had some too, but then discreetly excused herself to go back to our van, fumbling frantically with the keys and muttering under her breath as tears formed in her eyes. Finally she got her hands on the cold milk and gulped gratefully.
We all swapped travel stories. Annie showed Nicole some pictures from their travels, and it turned out they had also been to Cesky Krumlov in the Czech Republic! And loved it!
Realizing they got along so well with music, Charles brought over our hard drive full of it for Clive to sift through. He and Annie were like kids at a candy store, and in return they burned us a copy of Hugh Laurie’s new CD which we’d listened to during lunch and very much enjoyed!
It was at the Wi-Fi restaurant that Charles read the e-mail giving us the ‘OK’ for Morocco! We ordered a round of drinks for and Annie and Clive who were also at the restaurant checking mail.
Dian served "digestives" (graham cracker-like cookies), a common British snack, as a treat, which we all munched on.
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