(Monday 21 March 2011, after a long shower, Puerto Varas, Chile) Continuation from Couchsurfing and bed-dwellers The plan was to spend a few days alone, in Paula’s great little beach cottage until she joined me that weekend, just relaxing and thinking over my trip. Just being alone. But on night one, as I lay in bed and started this thinking and alone-being, I found that I was not in fact alone. The bed was FULL of fleas. Having sprung out and examined my clothes and body for unwelcome company, I eventually went back into the bedroom. Needless to say, I pulled up the bed. Her room was by far the nicest place to sleep. I stood in my underwear in the middle of the house, feeling lost. I stared at the big white bed for a while… Nothing moved… I decided I would sleep in my sleeping bag on top of the bed. The fleas were all inside the covers, surely. So I climbed into my sleeping bag and jumped diagonally onto the bed simultaneously pulling it up tightly over me so nothing could get inside. Plus, I lay with my head at the foot of the bed – that would confuse them. Read the rest of this entry »
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(11:15, 18 March 2011, La Casa de la Paula, Sector Papirua, Chile) The sound of the waves has been right outside the door for a day and a half now, and still I sometimes look out at the sea just to check that it’s real. It’s a brown beach, unlike the beaches I am used to, but its lovely. Pine forest lines the shore and spreads up and down, and up and down the horizon hills behind the houses. There certainly aren’t a lot of people around. Yesterday evening I went for a walk on the beach. And I had a laugh because, if I was worried about finding my way back to the right place, I just had to follow my own footprints – they were the only ones on the whole beach. Read the rest of this entry »
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