ventured out tonight

to a restaurant called Mundo's that has good pizza and was rumored to have a good wine selection by the glass, but turns out you can't choose what kind of wine you want by the glass, and i couldn't totally understand what the waitress said...so i ended up with something red and half decent. random guy who knew enough English to tell me that I should stay and talk to him and ask for my number followed me to my taxi...and a cop chastised me for only carrying a copy of my passport at a checkpoint about 2 blocks from my hotel. fun times.

tomorrow I plan to head to this market and this hotel.

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