Birria and Salamanders (?)

Another quick post just to show you one of the visitors to our house on Saturday night. All manner of beasties seem to want to take refuge in our house but I’d never seen one of these outside of a zoo. It might be a gecko, but they’re green aren’t they? This one (and his friend, not pictured, but pretty much identical) seems translucent and in my (unscientific, poorly-researched) book that makes him a salamander. Or are salamanders the ones that breathe fire? Any zoologists reading?

Yesterday i went to Santa Tere’s Sunday market to pick up things like an antena for the telly and ‘rent’ some new DVDs. Jose tagged along and recommended going for birria. Birria is a spicy soup/broth with goat meat floating in it. For a long time, I’ve been well suspicious of it but my worries turned out to be baseless. It’s really tasty. If you’d like to try it and can’t quite bring yourself to eat in the main San Juan de Dios market, you could do a lot worse than check out Birrieria San Luis Soyatlan in Santa Tere (Andres Teran/ Hospital) purveyers of goat-based dishes since 1970.

Over the last few days I’ve found time for a bit of movie watching too:

Zathura: Jumanji in space minus Robin Williams. 3 Lulus…
Irreversible: French film about an evening of violent revenge told backwards. 4 Lulus for its panache. But won’t be seeing it again…
The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Such a good film, deserved a repeat viewing. 4.5 Lulus

Fernando came round yesterday too, Pocilga Beat has a MySpace page if you’re into that kind of thing… They’ve already got an impressive list of ‘adds’