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4. Ica
We tried to leave here yesterday, so went to get our bus to Arequipa from Ica which is 2mins from Huacahina where we've been staying, but there is a farmers strike & they're blocking all the roads.  We had to stay in the rankest hostel last night, it didn't have a roof & was so so so depressing.  Now we're forced to wander around Ica all day until the bus hopefully leaves this evening.  Ica is at least hot, but that is all that makes it preferable to Lima.  I have a bad stomach & think it's because there isn't really anything to eat without meat & my body is rejecting it.  We went to a cafe today & although it wasn't on the menu I asked for a cheese sandwich, & the woman looked at us like we wanted dog shit on a stick, quite like that Peter Kay bit where his dad keeps repeating CHEESE...CAKE!!??!! louder & louder.

I really hope the trip doesn't continue in this manner of having to endure 5 shit days for every 1 good day.  I feel tired & ill & if I didn't know better I would say that we had been away for 2 months at least, not just under a week.  I have left my towel & bed socks in the last hostel & I've melted a big hole in my kag in a bag & fleece from a candle.  

Araquipa is supposed to be cold, as in snowing cold as it's really high up in the mountains.  I will have to get a jumper & some new socks, & a towel if I'm going to survive.

I also am feeling quite disheartened as I've been going on the internet everyday & noone is replying, I feel like I've fallen off the world & it is so so boring, with crap food.