Sosua Reports

[QUOTE=Tempoecorto;2466530]If you do meet and greet here (in club / street etc) as has always been the case, you are also looking at the potential of picking up the COVID virus. I really had not thought of this probability but it is something we all as visitors need to grapple with. [/QUOTE]If you meet a chick online and she comes over to fuck you are looking at the potential of picking up the virus. Does not matter how many people you are around; it just matters that you are around ONE that has it.

[QUOTE=MrEnternational;2466597]If you meet a chick online and she comes over to fuck you are looking at the potential of picking up the virus. Does not matter how many people you are around; it just matters that you are around ONE that has it.[/QUOTE]True. I was contrasting it to bringing in someone you know or keep in touch with as against random pick up. Of course we all are vulnerable, the person you "know" and an asymptomatic I, spreading it, which is why one speaks of probability.

[QUOTE=Cool;2466503]Flip Flop (Irish / Black) gave his blessing to circulate his channel.[/QUOTE]I like this man marketing skills. But his establishment sucks. Breakfast and lunch. Not worth eating there at all.

[QUOTE=Tempoecorto;2466566]The photo is willfully fuzzy as I presume others may not like to see themselves on line either.

Interestingly, I saw a bunch of people all moving in groups, who appeared to be from Chicago, NYC or Atlanta or similar place and these people had congregated at the open air place on the main drag just behind the metro bus place, seen in the photo. I also saw some women on the street corners.[/QUOTE]I know one of your pleasures in Sosua, is good food!

How are you doing in that regard?

My lady has had me on home cooking for almost 5 months now!

[QUOTE=Oakie;2466736]I know one of your pleasures in Sosua, is good food. How are you doing in that regard?[/QUOTE]Excellent so far! The guy who drove me to Sosua, had bought some fresh goat meat (in sosua I find only the frozen kind) there at my behest, a art of which I cooked yesterday. Otherwise I bought food. The other day, the fish was excellent I thought. A la creole. Today I had a pork steak and a pork rib, barbecued. Done right in front of me.

I still have not visited my favorite restaurants, especially the Italian one in Cabarete but they wrote back saying they are open since the 1st.

[QUOTE=Cool;2466551]Too much Covid talk on this board.[/QUOTE]There's too much COVID talk on this entire website. Mongers are having meltdowns and are getting into politically-charged back-and-forth flame wars with each other in multiple threads for days. And now you've got someone who started a thread just to talk about stocks and markets. The moderators have either lost control or don't give a shit. It's probably a combination of both.

A friend from France reminded me at the beginning of the day that it was their independence day back in 1789, I. E, 13 years after 1776.

Had a very good lunch with barbecued meat and white rice. I made a salad with an avocado and tomato, salt, pepper and olive well which was way better than what passes for a salad here. I had a pedicure done. The woman who I know, came to visit me at around 6 pm and we sat outside in the patio, and with a beautiful breeze and with the sun down, and birds chirping all around. After a while the gentleman who does the laundry came to deliver it. I could not get up with my feet in warm water. He just left it inside the apartment, without even asking for money.

I am grateful to be here.

In course of my stroll tonight I decided to take a look at Ahnvee place, the new Sosua location. I timed myself from Hotel Europa and it was a leisurely 10 minute's walk on Pedro Clisante with the infernal motorbike noise around. I have attached a picture.

The walk back was nicer. I took a "scenic" route. People at 10 PM were outside relaxing with children et al. It is still sultry.

The former chef from the New Garden has his own Italian restaurant in Cabarete. Its on the beach unfortunately I forgot the name. The food is excellent.

[QUOTE=Tempoecorto;2466805]Excellent so far! The guy who drove me to Sosua, had bought some fresh goat meat (in sosua I find only the frozen kind) there at my behest, a art of which I cooked yesterday. Otherwise I bought food. The other day, the fish was excellent I thought. A la creole. Today I had a pork steak and a pork rib, barbecued. Done right in front of me.

I still have not visited my favorite restaurants, especially the Italian one in Cabarete but they wrote back saying they are open since the 1st.[/QUOTE]The street bar Barbeque up near Europe has an excellent rep. Cheap too!

And you still can get a decent fresh lunch at one of the beach shacks!

[QUOTE=Adinga;2466927]The former chef from the New Garden has his own Italian restaurant in Cabarete. Its on the beach unfortunately I forgot the name. The food is excellent.[/QUOTE]You appear to be a food aficionado too! The name is "Beachside". Beautiful locale and the best Italian that there is, on the North Coast, cooked by a genuine Italian chef as against in New Garden, where the locals learned from Gian Luca, the chef.

[QUOTE=Oakie;2467003]The street bar Barbeque up near Europe has an excellent rep. Cheap too!

And you still can get a decent fresh lunch at one of the beach shacks![/QUOTE]Interesting you mention that. I had bought from them in the past and now they seem to have focused lot more on barbecue. I also saw, two other apparent barbecue places, going towards Ahnvee last night, looking at the pictures posted streetside.

It is too bloody hot for me to get to the beach mid day although I would like to try WRX's suggestion of shack #67 if I recall. I went to Playa Chiquita this morning at around 7 AM. By 10 AM, the sun is battering down my resistance and so I go out after sundown.

I have eaten there a few times and it is the best restaurant I have tried so far in the area! Very friendly also.

[QUOTE=Tempoecorto;2467133]You appear to be a food aficionado too! The name is "Beachside". Beautiful locale and the best Italian that there is, on the North Coast, cooked by a genuine Italian chef as against in New Garden, where the locals learned from Gian Luca, the chef.[/QUOTE]

For beer connoisseurs try the Germany Restaurant. They carry 2 or 3 top German hefeweizen beers.

[QUOTE=MrEnternational;2466597]If you meet a chick online and she comes over to fuck you are looking at the potential of picking up the virus. Does not matter how many people you are around; it just matters that you are around ONE that has it.[/QUOTE]You are absolutely correct! These Dominicans have no concept of awareness. All restaurants and fast food joints are now open and some are very crowded but they have not fully integrated the social distancing policy as of yet.

I see a lot of people with their masks half down to their chin as if they think the mouth is the is only part worth protecting. A good majority of working people at the airport and streets in SD are clustered together in round sitting chairs and not even covering themselves at all. The Dominican guests with large families at the all-inclusive in PP act as if the face mask is just for show. The country is now fully open but its a potential hazard for the folks from mainland especially those with weak immunity. Just my two cents on my recent observation down here.