Post #18231 by Formikahini on Sat, Jan 4, 2003 8:32 PM

I was at the Maona Loa in the summer of 2000, purely by chance. Two other high school teacher/grad students and I were taking a weekend break from our studies in Salamanca, and walked by the bar on our way home to our perfect little hostel off Plaza del Sol (just up from the Irish bar under the Tio Pepe sign). I begged that we HAD to go, which my sweet non-Tiki-loving friends indulged. The fotos from later that night have us all covered with leis, holding those two foot green straws, and my friend Dyana is under the bed. We still don't remember why...

I have no pics of the place at all, because a cute drunk at the running of the bulls in Pamplona two weekends before broke my camera. Not sure if gypsies would've been a better fate...

Our group's last weekend was in Fuengirola, the south south of Spain (with nary a Spaniard in sight, just Brits and Germans). There was a Tiki bar there, the Tahiti. Like the Maona Loa, nothing but bad Euro-trash music, but it did have some cool mugs, which I openly coveted - but resisted the urge to take. There are hazy memories (and incriminating videos) of karaoke later that night (Status Quo and Scorpions were available), and at breakfast the next morning, after all my bags were packed with no centimeter of space left, the undergrads presented me with three 5-finger-discounted killer drink receptacles, including the above-mentioned volcano ("serves 8")!!! I had to squish my shampoo and everything into the mugs just to get them into my bags. I think I took out my pajamas, even.

I have already confessed to Otto that I have them and was secretly - well, openly delighted at their theft - especially as I did not steal them but was nonetheless going home with them! (which means I'm still going to hell, but I get to keep the mugs, right?)The volcano sits up high as my crown jewel, surrounded with Kahiki Maoi mugs standing guard.

I will be back in Madrid this summer - thanks for reminding me!! And I finally get to go to Barcelona and see all the cool spots there!

(oh, two of the Spanish mugs have an interlocking M and V logo on the bottom)

[ Edited by: formikahini on 2003-01-09 10:07 ]