Pocketful of Memory Cards

As tradition seems to dictate, our first night back from vacation leads to a dinner inspired by the cuisine of our favourite restaurant on the trip.  Tonight's dinner is inspired by the chefs at  Posada Movida on Los Roques. A simple pizza, some mild Italian sausages from Valoroso, our local Italian grocer, and an Ensalada Mixta; mescalun, big chunks of tomato and avacado and sliced red onions. Wish we could get the avacados we had on Margarita.  One lasted us two weeks.

There are so many beautiful places to explore in the world and I know I'll never get to see half of the ones on my list, but I think I would skip at least one to go back to Los Roques .   Our Posada, called Movida, was on Gran Roque, the largest island in the archipelago.  It's roads were made of sand, colourfully painted concrete buildings dotted the streets and there was only one motorized vehicle on the entire island.  Movida was run by an Italian family (many of the Posada owners on Los Roques are Italian as are many of the visitors).  The people were so accommodating, the food was fantastic and the atmosphere muy tranquilo.   After we arrived at the Posada this morning, we dropped off our clothes, changed into our bathing suits and got our beach gear together.  We hopped on the Posada's boat and were delivered to a small island with a white sandy beach sourounded by the blue green ocean.  An umbrella was planted into th...