Santa Rosa, Leticia and Tabatinga

After an 8 hour speed boat trip down the Amazon, the thing broke down twice. The last time it did we were drifting for a good 20 minutes. Finally got to the boarder region for Peru, Columbia and Brazil. The Peru bit, Santa Rosa, is little more that a Police hut and a few houses on stilts. So we decided to stay in Leticia, Columbia, just for the hell of it. Feck, Ive never seen so many military before, absolutely everywhere due to drugs, our friendly left wing rebels the Farcs and an equally nice bunch of seperatist rebels. Leticia itself is the nicer of the 3 places by far, though Tabatinga aint too bad.
Wouldnt even have mentioned it had it not been for the Biggest Muppet competition between Claire and Chris. Ended up having to nip over to Brazil to go the hospital there (a military one which was free and by far better than any NHS one Ive seen on my extensive visits of them back home) to check on Claires finger which shed banged before she came out. It was here that Claire took the early lead by having a mini tantrum with tears and everything when told she was gona need a blood test. Now I found this piss funny and was wetting myself, while as for the military doctor who most usually dealt with gunshoot wounds, he too found this funny. In the end had to go in with her. However Chris, unwilling to fall behind quickly caught up when it turned out was a tad bit of a hypocondriac. Manged to convince himself he had malaria while stood out in the corridor. A worthy attempt but Claire was still in the lead. Yet.... wasnt until the next day that Chris came from out of no where to take the lead. The easiest way between the two places is by a little moto-caneo. On the way back to Columbia the next day Chris was getting out, one foot on the jetty and one foot on the caneo, only the caneo wasnt tied to anything. Sure enough he went straight in, soaking his passport for the second time and gave the taxi drivers something to laugh at. Absolute quality!!
Anyway from there we got the boat which was 4 days long down to Manaus, but thats a different story.