The municpal albergue is the oldest on the cmaino built in a re-configured old church. The hospitaliero was a fantastic guy; a Basque Spaniard who welcomed me with an orange and the news that they had filched a TV and rigged it up without a license to watch the Spain Switzerland game.
I had just enough time to shower and do laundry and take my orange down to watch.
In response to my 'we played as never we lost as always' post, Katie posted a comment along the lines that the bank of Austria had crunched numbers and thought that Spain was likely to win.
Mais non!
'We played as never we lost as always' proved true again. I know sweet FA about soccer really but it did seem to me (and the cerveza swilling Spaniards I watched with) that Spain had the ball most of the time and had a lot of times they could have scored. But they didn´t. Not sure if brother David would have found incidents enough to claim that Spain won but the ref gave it to Switzerland but either way, the bank of Austria? Who the hell has even heard of them anyway!
After that I wandered back into this delightful town to take a few pics as the camera had been packed away in the rain. Alas I left the battery behind on charger so came back with only a few veg to cook up for dinner and a bottle of Bierzo wine. We are not in Rioja now Dr Ropata!
So I cooked my dinner and took it out to the outside seats and when the hospitaliero came by invited him to share it. Pretty soon we had a party going. Two sisters from the Dominican republic joined in then a lady from Quebec and three French people. Once all food and wine was consumed the Basque pulled out a large 1.5l water bottle of yellow liquid not unlike a large bottle of piss and a set of shot glasses. Apparently he had met a guy in the village who makes tax free liqour and this had been made from grape pressings left over from wine making plus a few herbs. Mmmmm........ Who knows wtf was in it but we ended up laughing ourselves sensless till all hours.
Eventually we went to bed (and immediately to sleep) before waking up 3 hours later itching all over. I haven´t done that with bed bugs before and put it down to an allergic reaction to the yellow plonk.
Alas when I woke in the morning I was covered in the most savage crop of bed bugs to date. I am so
f]·%& over those things. Day two and three are always the worst and I fear this lot might prevent pack carrying for a couple of days. Lets see.
Does anyone else get these buggy things or is it just a "Jennifer from N Z thing"? or maybe the bugs like the yellow plonk too!
ReplyDeleteWell, your experience of bed bugs has put me off completely! But then NZ has things like lice and scabies, which I had not encountered elsewhere!
ReplyDeletePlenty of other people have had them. I saw four other people who had stayed in the same room as me in Molinaseca and got bitten also. Not everyone reacts as badly to them as I do, but some do. Everyone wants to parcel you off to doctors who are next to useless. People who have been have had the doctor not know what they are. If they do know they all say the same thing. Let them take their course and be vigilante about not getting infection in them when they get to the weepy oozy stage.
ReplyDeleteWell I woke up this morning and felt grateful in my bed - then again I got up amd read your post an dfelt itchy all over again.. i hope you are better by the time you read this. Love Jo
ReplyDeleteReally feeling for you on the bedbugs Jen. Lynne suffered a major attack in India a few years ago and reacted very badly. Fortunately we were riding with a Kiwi doctor who was carrying a pretty decent little pharma pack. Strong steriods + antihistamine was the treatment, but it still took a day or two before Lynne could ride again (and longer for complete abatement). Good Luck.
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