I haven’t written for some time. I am in Sri Lanka. It is paradise and it is so distracting. There will be more to follow but for now I feel the need to talk about the terrible experience I had last night. It was my first evening in the town of Midigama which is about 30ks south of Galle in Sri Lanka and registers a temperature of approx 30000 degrees. It was so hot in fact that on arrival in the town after a one hour train journey my friend Niall and I checked straight into the closest guesthouse. It certainly wasn’t the nicest place I had stayed in. On arrival Niall chased a mouse out of his bathroom and I set to work with some duck tape on my mossie net. Once our chores were over we went hunting for local advice on boards, beds and breaks.
We didn’t return to our ever so humble abode till late that evening and at about 9.45 which is way past my bedtime I was looking forward to some well earned zzz’s. I proudly made my bed safe in the knowledge that ‘Fenny the brave’ has stayed in much worse places and in comparison to some of her accommodation one night here would surely be a breeze. After all I had walked from Jiri, with Skills! Proud of my blasé approach to the situation and armed with my head torch and DEET bottle I smugly drifted into oblivion dreaming of the clean waves and left breaks which were to follow. Unfortunately for me however the night didn’t proceed quite as planned. At 12.54a.m I awoke to a worrying sensation on my skin…
Something was crawling…
I grasped my headtorch, flicked it on and to my complete horror was greeted by two mahoooosive cockroaches scurrying all over me!!
Arghhhh
Cockroaches
Arghghg
Bare skin
Ewwwww
Inside my Mosquitoe net!!
Did I mention the ON MY SKIN bit!
Blurrrrrrrgh!
Once I had overcome the initial sensation I soon realized that I was going to have to set about getting rid of the creatures. Armed only with one size nine flip flop and a copy of “Even Cowgirls Get The Blues” I bashed, screamed, laughed and cried my way through the battle which lasted for sometime.
For the rest of the night I woke intermittently commenced a full body check and returned to a restless doze before leaping out of bed with the sun! I have spent the day in search of cockroach counseling but it seems that this obvious gap in the market has been seriously overlooked.
Perhaps I am not so brave after all.
I will write of less worrying tales soon.