Catastrophe

Oh yeah, and I thought that I should share my recent bad luck (in fact, the first hiccup of my trip): I lost the frickin´ recharger for my camera... f&*k, bolli%, sh1Te

I don´t even know where I lost the b@$Trd, it just wasn´t in my bag one day... I thought that maybe I left it in one of the hostels, so I rang up all the old ones but no joy... I´m pretty sure that is wasn´t knicked cos it wouldn´t really be of any use to anyone!

The problem is that no-one has a Casio Exilim EX-Z50 (which, by the way, is an absolutely fantastic piece of photographic machinery and which I consider more important to me than several of my body organs - not that one though!)... and the batteries are unique to it and it can only be recharged in its own charger unit... so its a bit of a disaster!

Luckily, today (after having asked every gringo in every hostel for the past week) I found someone with the same camera so I managed to charge both my batteries with his charger... This will (just about) do me for my month in the Jungle if I turn off the screen and use the viewfinder (a technical regression of seismic proportions - paramount to shaving with a kitchen knife)...

Anyway, hopefully I´ll survive until Lima, where I can get another one.