black books

i was going to write a proper blog update this weekend, but i have spent all day doing accounting and filing for the business, which was exhausting and it still isn't finished. i watched the tour de france during the morning, today chavanel won, which is nice as he's from france. lance is 18th i think currently because of getting a flat tire on the cobbles the other day. i am determined to go to watch it in real life next year in a campervan.

i am still reading my book called i, rigoberta menchu, an indian woman in guatemala. on further research i found a damning article on the internet which claims it is a fictitious communist propaganda document. she describes in detail the torture by the army of her brother and mother, and their deaths, and her father's death in the spanish embassy seige in guatemela city. she won a nobel peace prize in 1992 and lives in exile in mexico continuing to support the indigenous mayans in guatemala. i figured that even if it is a largely fictitious document, there is still the truth which is that the guatemalan army, supported by the american cia, and led by crazed military dictators, massacred most of the mayan indians for 30 years until 1996.

anyway, on a happier note, we went out the other night and had some drinks and swam in the sea with dire straits playing on full blast in the car, how retro. i haven't drunk lots for a while so was consequently very sick the next day.  a new bar has opened in placencia, called the barefoot bar, it's all bright colours and right on the main street. we kind of watched the uruguay germany match today, but those horns are too annoying so we zoned out, plus i was in an accounting frenzy so couldn't concentrate.

i will write more soon sorry for the boring update for today. i hear there is a heatwave in the uk. here there has been lots of rain and wind, there are lots of what they call tropical waves happening out in the caribbean sea, which sometimes turn into hurricanes, but often just bring a ton of rain and wind and thunder and lightning. i do a daily hurricane check which involves checking 4 different weather websites.

ok over and out for now. early night so i can cycle in the morning.