I am on fire, and it's the rainy season

In these shoes...!?

Off the boat and into a taxi to take us through one-horse Tabatinga, via the police station to check out of Brazil and over the border to airport immigration at Leticia, Columbia, to have our passports stamped IN!


It feels good to be back on the Spanish side. Our hostel, La Jangada is very nice, but the weather is so hot and humid I can hardly be bothered to do anything.


A wander around the pleasant small town, a cold beer or two in the company of Che/Castro lookalike man-about-town Guillermo Guerro and his Swiss sidekick Johannes, and we're back in the room for a cold shower or two.






We're sitting on the porch talking to Montreal Canadian Emmanuel (rap star Manu Militari) when the storm breaks - torrential rain, and the lightning causes power blackouts, but it clears the air nicely for the next day, though it's still raining, which is fine by me.



Also fine is that things are suddenly cheaper (thank goodness!) and we have a slapup feed at El Abuelo for two quid each.

A word on meals "for two" in South America - I'm not sure who they have in mind with their business plan, but my money is on Matty and Pete Broon.

The portions are massive! We had a gutbusting grill a couple of nights ago, and look at this lunch we had at a fish restaurant back in Florianopolis - we had to leave half of it...


Anyhow, a couple more beers, a night's kip and we catch the plane to Bogota...

More Tabatinga and Leticia pictures here...