Lost in Translation
Trip Start
Jun 14, 2010
1
8
20
Trip End
Ongoing
Tabatinga, Estado do Amazonas, Brazil
Monday, July 5, 2010
Featuring:
1. Boiled chicken, fried chicken, roast chicken, minced chicken and shredded chicken, superbly combined with rice AND spagehetti at both 10.30am and 4.30pm daily. Such a chickenny feast that 3 weeks later Colm is yet to eat so much as a chicken nugget.
2. Simultaneous daylight robbery. A pick pocketing and a northern Brazilian mass ATM fraud. We could only wish that we were at the scene of the second crime.
3. Holland 3 - Brazil 2 (I haven’t been witness to an anti-climax like this since the football in 2007).
4. Cachaca
5. Ron (who knew that Rum came in milk carton format?).
6. Drunken salsa with the locals (Elizabeth, not Colm).
7. An unexpected stalking by a sixty year old Brazilian chap (Elizabeth, not Colm - the look on Elizabeth’s face when Colm offered the old codger a photo opportunity with the queen of the Amazon was priceless!).
8. More Ron.
9. Barbecued fish skin (when you‘re unable to explain to your new best Colombian drinking buddy that you don‘t really like fish, do not under any circumstances proceed to eat fish skin just to put an end to the communication issues).
10. Revolucion!
11. Mucho, mucho sign language.
12. A temporary appearance by Michael Flatley.
13. A temporary appearance by John Spillane.
14. Projectile vomiting (see points 1 and 9. Mysteriously all 5 gringos on the ship, with the exception of Elizabeth were similarly affected).
15. Seinfeld Season 1
16. Seinfeld Season 2
17. Flash Forward Season 1
18. Friday Night Lights Season 1
19. 7 hours of Spanish classes with legendary French linguist Michael Thomas (and I still can‘t understand a word).
20. An orange of perfect green.
21. Fritzwalter weather (a world cup trivia term to stump Jimmy McGee).
22. Argentina 0 - Germany 4
23, Fog horns, lots and lots of fog horns.
24. Inexplicable daily 10 hour stops.
25. A very unexpected 30 minute stop...
26. ...A gallop down a hill, scamper across multiple planks, desperate weave through a crowded pier and giant leap onto the boat in the style of Captain Jack Sparrow...
27. ...A false alarm. Only 9 and a half hours before departure as it turns out the actual captain has a sense of humour.
28. The 7am breakfast of coffee and crackers did not feature on this trip.
29. Multiple head bruises. When installing a TV that doesn't work in a cabin designed for a hobbit, don't hang it right inside and the door.
29. Colummmmbiians.
30. Amazonian sunsets and starry skies that made it all worthwhile.
