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Walking along the main small drag here
I turned off down a small street of rubble
and called into the makeshift store that
some opportunistic thai has opened.

The first thing i picked up was a full month
supply of the contraceptive pill. Yeah, thats
right folks the pill in a convenience store. liberated
or what? then a few more isles full of medicine that
would kill an elephant and i had my water and was out
next door to the aptly named Satan cafe. It is the only
store I have ever seen named after the dark lord. Apparently
they do a devilish chocolate cake but the chef was off feeding
his chickens.

The nearby pharmacy was almost as fun. I asked the
smiling chap behind the counter for some herbal sleeping pills
as I am bad sleeper especially in the heat. Before his breath
had been drawn he wacked two blister packs of valium on the
counter and offered my chemical oblivion. I smiled said i
might have look around and waltzed off seeking less pungent
magic.

Running on the beach has to be one of the most remarkable
and free inspirational things to do when in paradise. The way
the sand slips and the foot finds purchase effortlessly.
After a while I stopped and walked back to the bike thinking
that life couldn't get any better. Then a hidden tree root
clobbered my foot and like a buffoon i leapt forward.
my toe had become a blubbery and the pain was excruciating.
The yin had been added to my yang.