June 3rd, 2018
Heavy rain overnight that continues for the whole
day
I
am up in the night a few times. The pain from yesterday has returned but this
time is accompanied by diarrhoea. I never suffer diarrhoea. I am very careful
over what I eat and drink. I won't have salads. I only have fruit I need to
peel. I don't drink the tap water. I never suffer diarrhoea!
Well
I have got it now. The first time I have ever had it whilst visiting Peru.
Actually in myself I don;t feel ill. I don't feel feverish or weak. I sleep and
get up, do what is required and go back to sleep.
Daylight
arrives and I try to eat some breakfast. I don't eat much. There are two young
Swiss girls who have been travelling for five months. Starting at Santiago in
Chile, they have been to Paraguay and Brazil and are now heading for Lima. We
chat and share experiences for an hour or so, a pleasure to be speaking English
again after seven weeks of stunted Spanish conversation with limited variety.
I
make a shopping list and head off for the shops. I was planning to go back to
Ampay nature sanctuary. This time I would pay the proper entrance fee for
foreigners and the extra owed from yesterday. Well that was the plan but the
weather and the tummy problem stops that idea. Instead I go to the internet
shop and find that England need just two more wickets to win the cricket. Well
that stops my thought that I could spend the day listening to my favourite
sport, away from the sport of Green Birding that is.
For
some strange reason I am allowed by Google/Blogger to update my blog so do so.
Recently they have sent security messages and blocked me. I then spend some
time answering and sending emails and posting all photographs onto my Facebook
pages.
Suddenly
I hear football noises from a TV at the other end of the room. I peep around my
cubicle to see half a dozen people standing there watching the set. Peru are
playing a friendly against Saudi Arabia in Switzerland and have just scored a
great goal, a shot from outside the area. I go and stand with everyone and soon
Peru score again, a shot that the goalkeeper fumbles and is put in from close
range. Half time, I pay my internet bill of three Soles, about seventy five
pence and return to the hotel in the rain. A crowd of fifteen or so people are
standing outside a television saleroom, watching the game in the rain.
Back
at the hotel and feeling a bit rough I relax, watch the second half in the
lounge area with the two Swiss girls from breakfast before going to my room and
relaxing in bed. I fall asleep early after watching an Ice Age animation film
in Spanish, the best bits of which are of Scrat with his acorn in space.
Green Year list : 211 birds average
new birds to list per day : 3.50 birds
altitude : 7,504 feet
OK, thank you to everyone who has made a donation to Birdlife International and Chaskwasi-Manu over the last week. I really do appreciate it and thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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