I’d been staying in San Marcos during the carnival and they were keeping the gates to the hostel open for people to come back late after partying. After the carnival the curfew was back in place and the gates were being locked early.
Most of the guys in the hostel who I had got to know had left but there was a German guy Stefan who was still there. We went out for a few drinks and he told me about the trick of how to get back into the hostel after curfew. The security gates are made of mild steel (you’ve got to love Bolivia) and you can bend them apart and slip through. Sounds easy!
Now Stefan learnt about this from a guy David who was Dutch 6’4” and skinny, Stefan was slim as well. For my age I am slim but even with the bars displaced by quite a bit it was a tight squeeze.
One other problem was that I had been a bit sick and was going everywhere with a toilet roll in my jacket pocket. This proved to be this sticking point. I was pissed and jammed in the bars and was struggling to get the toilet roll out of my pocket so I could slither through the bars. Not to worry at least I had help. Not so, Stefan was more interested in taking pictures and pissing himself laughing. I managed to get the toilet roll out of my pocket and I was free and on the inside of the gates. I bent the bars back and crashed out.
Thanks for the fotos Stefan, I’ll let you know if I’m coming to Germany at some point in the future.
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I was beginning to wonder and then I saw the bent bars – did Simpo go first…?
Simpo would have no chance getting through those bars.