{"id":1043,"date":"2014-07-10T11:26:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T17:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2014-07-29T02:55:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T08:55:08","slug":"swim-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/swim-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Swim the world!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had my first dip in the gorgeous Atlantic in the Bah\u00eda de La Concha (Kontxako Badia).\u00a0 It&#8217;s been raining every morning since I got here, with bright breaks of sunshine just as I start work, so I haven&#8217;t really had a chance to go swimming yet.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1048\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/photo-9_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1048\" class=\"wp-image-1048 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/photo-9_small-1024x223.jpg\" alt=\"photo-9_small\" width=\"1024\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/photo-9_small-1024x223.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/photo-9_small-300x65.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Panoramic view of Bahia de la Concha\/Kontxako Badia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It has taken countless times on European beaches and being around friends I adore and would never think twice about their bathing suit choices, to get over my very very American attitude toward the speedo.\u00a0 I&#8217;m generally very speedo-tolerant these days, barely noticing and I only make jokes about white ones and the kind that look like women&#8217;s 80s underwear.\u00a0 I think I might even like the ones that look more like boxer briefs than bikinis, you know, the semi-speedo.\u00a0 Now, I only bring this up because there were two really hot Spanish guys on the beach today in their semi-semi-speedos and I was thinking, hey, those aren&#8217;t so bad, they&#8217;re actually quite nice.\u00a0 Until one of them turned around and blinded me with big white script letters spread across his ass that screamed &#8220;Swim the world!&#8221;.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know why, but I just couldn&#8217;t stop laughing for like a half hour.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t help that he kept running back and forth playing ping pong in front of me.\u00a0 Swim the world, swim the world, swim the world.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, it&#8217;s probably some designer moniker like &#8220;Juicy&#8221; or some pop culture reference I don&#8217;t know, you know like &#8220;Just do it&#8221; or &#8220;Keep Calm&#8221; or &#8220;Where&#8217;s the Beef?&#8221;\u00a0 Or the name of a school or maybe some competition he won, or maybe he just wants everyone to swim the world, dammit, but I just kept thinking he probably thought it meant something else when he bought it.\u00a0 Like something cool.<\/p>\n<p>Alright I&#8217;ll stop now, I shouldn&#8217;t be wearing the bathing suit I&#8217;m wearing either and hopefully swim-the-world guy is blogging somewhere about me.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1049\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/photo-1-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1049\" class=\"wp-image-1049\" src=\"http:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/photo-1-5-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"photo 1-5\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/photo-1-5-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/photo-1-5-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1049\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not sure what he&#8217;s playing, but it looked and sounded cool. I was thinking of giving him my man shoes.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1050\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/photo-1-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1050\" class=\"wp-image-1050\" src=\"http:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/photo-1-6-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"photo 1-6\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/photo-1-6-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/photo-1-6-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Look at all that ham! Great selection of pintxos here, but crowded with tourists, locals too.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1051\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/photo-3-5-e1405277473575.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1051\" class=\"wp-image-1051\" src=\"http:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/photo-3-5-e1405277473575-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"photo 3-5\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/photo-3-5-e1405277473575-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/photo-3-5-e1405277473575-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bar Taberna Aralar<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1052\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/photo-4-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1052\" class=\"wp-image-1052\" src=\"http:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/photo-4-4-e1405277746327-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"photo 4-4\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/photo-4-4-e1405277746327-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/photo-4-4-e1405277746327-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Serrano and quail egg gazpacho, anchovies, egg with bacon and piquillo pepper and bacon serrano wrapped artichoke.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Okay, pintxo time&#8230;I had four today. But I&#8217;m not counting the gazpacho in the glass, even though it did have a quail egg and serrano ham in it.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><strong>Spanish spoken:<\/strong> I&#8217;m giving this part up. Can&#8217;t keep track.\u00a0 All I&#8217;m speaking is Spanish, except when I&#8217;m working.\u00a0 <\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> Food eaten:<\/strong> Thursday\u2026chorizo sandwich, gazpacho with quail egg and serrano, anchovies, egg with bacon and piquillo pepper and bacon serrano wrapped artichoke. Just had some bread, cheese and olives for dinner. Man I ate a lot of bacon today.<br \/>\n<strong>Drinks drank:<\/strong> I&#8217;m going to give this up too, just assume I&#8217;m always drinking either coffee, wine or cider.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had my first dip in the gorgeous Atlantic in the Bah\u00eda de La Concha (Kontxako Badia).\u00a0 It&#8217;s been raining every morning since I got here, with bright breaks of sunshine just as I start work, so I haven&#8217;t really had a chance to go swimming yet. 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