The Hotel

We are staying at a place called Green Shores Apartments. It is located on the main road ( the one with cars and taxis and rickshaws). We are on the 3rd, top floor of the hotel. The room is very nice as we have marble floors, (this is actually more common than you think. They don't have vacuums here so your floor is either wood or marble and marble is found here locally so they use it all the time. If you find a place with carpet, the use a broom to clean the carpet anyway, so marble is good. We have windows on two sides of the room, one overlooking the main beach and the light house, and the other over looking the rocky shore which gives us the great ocean sounds at night to fall asleep to. We also have a balcony that wraps around in the shape of an L. The beds look nice, which are foam pads on a board, but the headboard is nicely painted/stained. One fitted sheet and one flat sheet and a pillow. We do have a ceiling fan in the room which is the life saver because there is no AC. We also have a small fridge in the room, similar to a bar fridge which of course we keep the peanut butter in! The bathroom is better than many hotels I've stayed at in the states. Nice clean shower, western toilet and sink. Marble floors and ceramic tile walls. We even have a television in the room that has yet to be turned on and don't think it will.
Here is the kicker about staying at this place. When we leave for the day, we turn the key back into the front desk, if you can call it that, and when you return, they give you your key for the room! The key itself is one of those really old skeleton type keys you see in old mystery movies! This is not the normal practice for hotels, it just depends on where you are staying and what part of town you are in. Some of our friends actually place locks on their doors, locks that they brought from the US.
Because we are near the shore and up on the third floor mosquitos are not a real problem at night. They are out there, but we don't need a net around the bed like some of the hotels down near the swamp area. During the day they are no problem at all which is very nice.
My next entry will be in several days as we are heading to an ashram tomorrow after practice to meet the "Hugging Saint". In the Hindu religion you don't need to be dead for centuries before you can become a saint - so we are going to meet one! I will enter about that trip, and about the way restaurants work here when we return.
Please remember, the internet is slow here and I have challenges uploading the pictures, so they are coming but I will continue with the posts, and put pictures on when I can....