Trip to Hainan, 2003

Diary entry, MattiKinnunen, 31.12.2003 - 5.1.2004 

Paska reissu, mutta tulipan tehtyä or Shitty trip, but I did it

Everything went well until I in my incredible stupidity tasted some chicken food in plane (by South China). It was poisoned or stale and tasted bad. For some reason I even swallowed. Too bad. After 7 hours I was iller than I have ever been in my life.

Anyway, we had some time before the sickness to check the surroundings of our hotel (South China Hotel, Sanya, Hainan). It is right on the beach and since we had a super deluxe room with seaview in the top floor, we were also able to enjoy it quite much, even from the hotel room. The water is warm and the evening (New Year´s Eve!) was nice. There was some lame BBQ in the garden but we had some local BBQ in the nearby busstation. I have never tasted so good grilled squids! Oh, they were heavenly. If someone promises me them in an afterlife in heaven, I may even consider starting to believe in some gods or whatever. That´s how good they were. 

Then the disease struck. Extremely high fever and the normal too fast two-way output-functionality and very limited input capacity. Some pain and cramps too, mostly in stomach and kidneys. The normal proceedings. In 2.5 days I lost some 8 kilos. 

At some point I saw Donald Duck, a Roman and many muffins in the curtain. Sirkku did not see them. Then I knew it is time to do something so Sirkku called the doctor and doctor faxed us the copy of an antibiotics package. After taking the pills for 60 hours, the output started to slow down and most of the extra figures disappeared from the curtains. Actually the Donald Duck turned out to be a butterfly. 

In Sunday I was able to stay up a few hours. We went to Holiday Inn for lunch, which I was not strong enough to eat. But the best thing was to see the corals with a class bottom boat. And in the evening we saw the squid fishing boats with their strong lights. So far I had only read about them in Simon Winchesters "The river at the centre of the world", page 42 in the paperback edition. I was so delighted to see them. 

And then it was time to return. I certainly did not eat anything on the plane on the way back...