We'd been very careful with food up until this point. We had avoided lettuce (even going to the extent of removing it from food that we ordered in case it had been washed in unboiled water), most chicken products (for fear of salmonella) and everything else we felt might be dodgy.
We were starving by the time we arrived in Copa so ducked into the first restaurant we could find. Little did the girls and I know that the various forms of ham we ate (on sandwiches and pizza) would later that night end in absolute disaster.
We went out for a really nice dinner at La Orilla - pepper steak mmmm and the first curry that we had seen on a menu in our entire journey. Mel was the first man down. The poor thing had to leave dinner halfway through, taking no more than two bites. Claire was next. My stomach held out for another day but soon joined in. Damn ham!! Luckily for us you can get pretty much anything you want over the counter in the pharmacies here. Travelling with a pharmacy student is an added bonus - Mel knows the names of the right drugs and adding 'ina' to the end of the english drug name seems to work. We spent the next few days on medication with our symptoms not disappearing as quickly as we would like with Christmas fast approaching.
Hopefully our run in with food ends here. We're hoping our guts are well and truly prepared now for what ever local street food throws at us because we're desperate to start eating it - smells soooo good. (We're just not going to ask what it is.... they like to eat dog in these parts.....)
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