Day off in Sahagun - Recovering from stomach illness
During the first few days of cycling in Colombia, I suffered quite a bit with a stomach bug. This meant eventually I had to take a day off in Sahagun.
Recovering from a stomach bug
Blog post written: May 9th 2010
Although toilet trips were still a pretty unpleasant experience, I felt as though I was getting a little better and had started to feel slightly more hungry again. Sahagun might have been a random place to take a day off, but I needed it.
I was at least coherent enough to realise that bike touring when sick had three immediate problems.
1. Shitting through the eye of a needle is not terrific, and I needed medicine.
2. I am running low on Pesos and need to visit an ATM machine.
3. I have only been given a 30 day visa for Colombia, making it tricky to cycle even if I am not ill.
I solved the first two problems early on, and only time will tell if I solved the third one !
I will split my following days up into more manageable sections as I approach the Andes, and hopefully as I am getting better, the next day off will be in a weeks time in Medellin.
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Dave is a UK travel writer living in Athens since 2015. With 20 years of firsthand travel experience and over 80,000 km of bicycle touring across six continents, he's been blogging at Dave's Travel Pages since 2005. Every guide is based on places he's actually been.
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