Rumble in the Jungle Part 2: Its all gone Titicaca

Trip Start Nov 02, 2007
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Sunday, December 2, 2007

Oh no not again - will we ever learn? ... We got to Puno and were really excited as we were so close to the border and it was time for a change.  Then we got hungry like the tasmanian devil and devoured a dodgy fish and chips, which was to knock us out for the count second time running.  I wasn´t too bad but the second day in, Stan was delirious with a fever and left the hotel cleaning staff a huge pile of vomit gravy in the bathroom as he missed the toilet by inches.  Cup a Soup has never looked so unappealing... 

He reckons it was my fault that he got the trajectory wrong as I´d wrapped him up like a mummy, meaning his escape route was hindered, but I¨d only done that cos he was shivering more than a streaker on a football pitch on a cold winters morn.  Anyway halfway through the night when his fever hit 39.5, I wimped out and called the doc, who complete with bushy monobrow, proceded to give Stan a whopper of an injection after filling the syringe with the contents of two glass phials and jabbed it into his arm Stan lookin moody cos he trusts nothin on the menu
Stan lookin moody cos he trusts nothin on the menu
 .  Stan not used to feeling a bit dopey felt quite alarmed at this sudden drowsiness, but thankfully 10 minutes later was fast asleep and fully knocked out.

Recovery took 4 days, but with the meds the doc had given us and re-runs of Smallville and Scrubs - there was no more projectile vomiting ala Linda Blair.

Unfortunately, we still felt queasy and we never managed to take a boat ride to the floating islands, or Isla Taquille.  Instead we hunted down the Captain of the gunboat Yavari - which was made in Brum, in 2766 peices and took 6 years to get to Peru in 1861, (they must¨ve been Birmingham City Council workers then, eh?  Two watching, one working!) and forced him to have tea with us.  2 hours later he wanted our kitsch little teapot and we traded it for an original rivet from the ship from the 1850´s! 

6 days later we left Puno eager to see what lay across the border in Bolivia and hoping that wherever we went, it was the last of Montezuma¨s revenge that we would encounter... 
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innercitybuddha
innercitybuddha on Jun 9, 2008 at 05:40PM

ships from land locked Brum
Many of you maybe wondering why ships would have link to landlocked Birmingham! A little bit of history my friends. James Watt, Matthew Boulton and Mr Murdock(the name escapes me). Settled in this fair city of ours, met and set up a company to manufacture James Watts' engine for use in factories to mass produce goods. During the period of the industrial revolution in this country.

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