Friday, May 19, 2006
04/2006: Madeira: 'cockroach encounter...this is not for animal lovers'
Blearily opened the door to the bathroom this morning to be greeted by two monstrous cockroaches glaring at me from the middle of the tiled floor. Played chase the cockroach for a while, which of course they won by moving at the speed of sound and wedging their vile bodies half under the skirting board thereby removing themselves from the danger of being splatted with an MBT trainer. Shan’t be going barefoot in this room again. Alert housekeeping who assure me they must have come in from outside and promise to spray the room.
My cockroach roommates obviously thrive on DDT as they are home to greet me when I return this afternoon. Manage to whack one which was rather satisfying.
Cloudy today with high winds but deceptively hot as the scorched pink flesh around the edges of my T-shirt testified. Had a frustrating moment this morning trying to get to a couple of hotels at the base of a cliff, I could see them but couldn’t work out how to get to them. Asked a couple of locals who said there was a way down the cliff, which I couldn’t find. After trudging back and forth along the road several times, I eventually discovered it – a dirt track which a couple of workmen were digging up. The hotels had lift access to the road but I couldn’t use them as I didn’t have a key card.
# posted by hotelreviewer @ 1:58 pm 
