Hello people!

We have covered some miles since we last wrote! We are now in Pisco - home to the famous grape brandy - we haven´t sampled any yet! Yesterday was a mammoth long-haul journey - we left Huarez at 9am (catching the bus by the skin of our teeth - damn the o.a.p. receptionist! Running with 20kg bags aint amusing!) and got to Lima at 5pm ish (we haven´t seen Paddington yet by the way) we then felt that we wanted to move on again cos the city was absolutely rammed with traffic and mad busy, so we wandered aimlessly around, once again lugging our bloody great bags, til we got in to a sweaty frustration with the world, not finding any buses goin where we wanted to. Then out popped a guy from round a corner, who was like jesus in our eyes - he had a bus leaving for Pisco in 20 mins! YEAH! Hmm, that was short lived once we had got ourselves on the bus all relieved and happy to be on the move when the bloody driver pulled out of the station right into another bus!!! DOH! With our bus slightly incapacitated we drove to the main bus terminal and swapped buses - we had been on the bus 45 mins by this time and had travelled about 500yards. On the new bus, which was rammed, we then had a 5hr journey to Pisco - most of which was spent looking out the window desperately looking for signs of Pisco and worrying that we had missed our stop! Anyway, we got here - it took a good 13hrs of travel, but we managed it!

It´s not bad here, quite small and not an awful lot to do in the center, but we are going on a boat trip along the coast tomorrow to see sealions and lots of guano producing birds! It´ll be nice to get out on the sea - hopefully it will be nice and calm!

By the way - we had a very exciting time a couple of days ago in Huarez - we climbed a glacier!!!! Can´t say you do that every day! We went out in to the mountains again - we were at 5000m above sea level by this point - and found a wall of the glacier, roughly about 20m high, and we climbed right to the top! Ice axes and all! I (sophie) looked a right plonker doin it, with bloody clown-like blue pants, bright yellow galsses and a sexy helmet, but the visual embarresment was worth it for the experience! got bloody cold hands tho! Andy also managed to get a rather large portion of the glacier down his pants whilst he was climbing, which appeared rather unpleasent!

The aforementioned Mr Green is currently watching football in our room, can´t get away from the bloody game! So i´m taking advantage of the free internet!

The hotel we are at is quite nice - it has a pool and free internet and it´s clean - only prob is that cos it´s the low season they are doing extensive repair/building/knocking down walls! at 7am in the morning seemingly!

Anyway,we are basking in the glorious sunshine and looking forward to our boat trip and also the prospect of goin to some vineyards in nearby Ica and goin sandboarding! WOOHOO! Thinking of moving on down to Cuzco pretty quickly - everyone we´ve met has said that there is loads to do there - might even see if we can walk some of the alternative Inca trails before we attempt the real thing!

We had a giggle the other night - we went out for dinner to a nice place in Huarez - the food was delicious - but we nearly wet our pants when the bill arrived - 94 soles! We´ve not paid that much since we´ve been here - it´s usually more like 40 soles for a meal out! However, in real money, we laughed when we did a bit of maths and realised that 94 soles is the equivilant of about 16 quid! It´s gonna be tough having to fork out so much money when we get back home!