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It's totally isolated when the tourists aren't here | showing the popular 'boulevarde' |
We live in the tiny coastal fishing village of Adicora. Our house is set at the quiet end of a deadend street which runs behind and parallel to the main road in town. The town itself is not very populated and I think we are the only 2 foreigners here although it does get busy on weekends and holidays with lots of 'local' tourists. Tourists here are mostly country people coming to the seaside for a vacation. The only foreigners visiting here would be windsurfers coming to enjoy the world-class windsurfing conditions of the open seas. |
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With A View of the Baseball Stadium | Complete With Cows!! |
| When the tourists aren't here, this town is VERY quiet with a church and a baseball stadium being the only public places, besides the bars. We have a small general store, a liquoria (where you buy your beer), a hardware store and a gas station. The stadium is close to our house at the end of our street and the locals enjoy their games of baseball on Sunday afternoons. It's also used for regilious festivals and political rallies. Baseball is a VERY popular sport in this country!! |
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| We don't have any direct neighbors, but do have some friendly people across the street. One of them does our laundry 1 day a week and also comes to clean the house 1 day a week. Her husband is a fisherman and often brings over wonderful live lobster and fresh red snapper. |
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Our rent is only $150 per month for our simple furnished house which is still unfinished. The landlady tends to make little renovations each month when we pay our rent. Electricity and water is very cheap (but we do have to put up with constant power outages and water rationing)! We have a phone, internet access and direct TV to keep us sane. Gasoline sells for about 50c a gallon which is one of the cheapest things you can buy here and we usually shop once about every 3 weeks with an average cost of $70-80 a week for groceries. We are able to use our ATM cards at the city banks and stores and the local currency is the Bolivar exchanging about 700B to the US dollar. The houses are very simple structures and most of them don't have glass windows. Screens are used to keep out the mosquitoes and flies and heavy wooden shutters are used when it rains. |
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| The town itself is a very safe one and the neighbors tend to keep and eye on our house when we are away. Burros and cows roam around free and can get very noisy in the early hours of the morning. The day time weather is always in the 90's, cooler at night with the help of some wonderful breezes. Rain is intermittent and usually only lasts a couple of minutes except in the rainy season when it can cause severe flooding. All in all, we have learned to adjust to this tranquil life as opposed to living in the city of Punto Fijo. It isn't paradise by any standard, but for peaceful living..I think we are in the right place. Any more peaceful than this and I'd think we were dead!! |
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