Sunday 16th December
Christmas is just over a week away and I have only seen glimpses of what might happen when the big day finally comes around next week. I passed a small carol service the previous night and heard the local kids sing ‘Silent Night’ under the palm trees. Everything else suggests ‘summer time’ to me that I can’t properly get my head around the fact that it’s Christmas! It was more of the same today.
After doing what you do when you’re at the beach, I found a bar on the beach that was showing the Man United-Liverpool and Arsenal-Chelsea games live on their TV, so settled in for a night amongst other western tourists, most of whom were, unsurprisingly, English. I was a happy man at the end, with United having beaten Liverpool on their won ground, and it doesn’t get any sweeter than that. I also got talking to a few other football fans beside me and we agreed to meet up the next day to play football on the beach. It was a very good end to another lazy day.
