We’ve been here for about two weeks. RECAP:
Since moving to Rio Dulce Frontera:
We’ve been eating at the local café’s and starting to recognize friendly faces. Food is good and lots to do here. Water taxi around, you can rent a jet ski or motorcycle and go to the mountains.
Still staying at Hotel De Paris(Link), great coffee, water, soda, juice, great crepes and a small bar. Prices are very reasonable. They have 2 menus, Spanish and English, I’m still challenged with the language, thank you google translate. I decipfer the menus before I order and point to be clear. Much less frustrating for everyone.
The patio upstairs is the Jewel, a fifth story full view of Rio Dulce. I’m not sure why but we are the only ones who come up here. It’s new and clean and covers the whole building, roughly 30ft x 30ft. With bistro seating around the outside edge and table seating in the center. Great for parties, great for working too, always a cool breeze there and no one to interrupt.
From here, watching the lightning storms every night in the mountains is hard to describe, and the live music from the church across the street just completes the charm.
WIFI
28/06/2018
We have run into a challenge, we didn’t research connectivity, and we still have a lot of business and personal matters to deal with at home. Whether phone or mostly online, we needed internet. Our cell phone from the states with an international data roaming plan was $300 more in roaming fees in two weeks. Should have managed that before I left WNTD (What not to do).
In Rio Dulce there is one cell provider, Tigo. The only one we found was a street vendor. Ask around (Chris told us where to go where they spoke english). For US $125 we bought an unlocked phone and a plan from a vendor on Mainstreet with 4 GB of data and 500 minutes of talk time. Make sure you have them set the phone up in your language.
Jeff turned the phone into a hotspot for me to use so forget the spotty WIFI, I was rockin and surfin. Turned off all data roaming WNTD…We burned 4 GB up in 2 days, checking and responding to email, Facebook, etc.
We received an alert from Tigo that we were out of minutes. In Spanish. Because we were out of data, Google translate wouldn’t work (even though we downloaded the language files) so trying to understand it was a challenge.
We tried to use the Tigo app to buy more minutes but it was in Spanish and we couldn’t figure it out.
So back to the Tigo store across the street to purchase more data. US $66.00 for 20GB of data, it comes with 1500 minutes of talk. Ok, I’ll be calling everyone using that phone now. Asked the Tigo vendor to change the Tigo app to English- he tried for 5 minutes. His Response “ The app does not translate to another language.” I will decipher it tomorrow….