My fire had been a success, my sleep had been a success and the Paracetamol had been a success. I bought a drink at the restaurant and had the first Paracetamol of the day; whenever the effect of the Paracetamol vanished I could feel a wave of fever and pain coming back and decided to continue taking Paracetamol until I was cured, 100% cured, back to normal again, normal body temperature. I had given up on hitchhiking, packed my backpack and walked to the shopping to catch the next bus to the bus terminal and from there to the public library.

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You had to sign in the book of the library and the staff knew me by now, the hard working, studying, writing and editing Gringo. School students doing their homework primarily used the public library and I would have never considered the public library as a place to find access to and use the internet. Thanks to my friends, I did not have to go to Volkswagen Perin every day and hope for a solid connection; they were having internet problems and on the first day, I did not connect at all, so the public library was the perfect option.

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For lunch, I went to the supermarket again and had a slice of pizza again, a drink and a Paracetamol again. Back to the public library, I connected to the internet and worked for 2 more hours. I wanted to be back to the Balneario early now that I knew that I had to walk the last 2 kilometers from the shopping. I went to the bus terminal, bus number 206 had just left and I had to take bus number 308, still had to wait for almost 1 hour, so my plan to arrive early did not really work because I did not know the time of departure of the buses and today it seemed I had missed them twice.

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I was tired of walking, of walking from the Balneario to the shopping, from the bus terminal to the public library, from the public library to the supermarket and back again, from the public library to the bus terminal and finally from the shopping to the Balneario. I wanted my friend the car back. If I would go to the center tomorrow, Saturday I would leave the backpack with the owner of the restaurant. Sunday I definitely did not want to go to the center, I wanted to spend the day at the beach, in my hammock and have lunch with the owner of the restaurant.

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I still had enough paper, carton and small wood sticks to easily start another fire and so I grabbed 3 more big pieces of wood on my way home from the shopping to the Balneario to make sure that I had enough to sustain the fire. It was quiet windy this evening and I had some problems to light one of the matches. I had to use more than 10 matches to finally light a bit of the paper and start the fire. I had not taken French bread, no meat, no potato, nothing; tonight the fire was pure fun.

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I had been at the Balneario now for almost a week and had not seen any visitor, not in the morning when I woke up, not in the early afternoon when I arrived back from the center, not in the evening when I was in my hammock. Only 2 nights ago while I was sleeping I had noticed 2 cars that had arrived way after midnight and 2 couples having a beer in the river and a small party or even more. My small party ended and I watched the fire from my hammock die and enjoyed the heavy wind that was blowing in my face, which even made my hammock swing. I was hoping that the heavy wind was not a signal for something different and will not bring rain clouds in the night so that I would have to rush to the bridge.

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