Excess at LarcoMar We got up in time for breakfast and then knuckled down to sort out our plans for Europe later in the year. We got out the map of Europe we had bought for S2.50 in Cuzco and Andy went to buy some stickers to mark it with. We then spent the next 8 hours putting dots on for all the places there were congresses on, colour coordinating them depending what month they were on to try and help us see a logical route to take to get to as many as possi...

Lima Centro After breakfast we packed our bags ready to leave later on in the day then decided we really should go out sight seeing before leaving the Centre of Lima. We first walked to a plaza where there was a huge statue of a man on a horse in the centre and surrounded by very German looking buildings. These seemed mostly to be posh hotels or banks and were very large and imposing so after taking a few pictures we moved on. Walking down the pretty streets w...

Recovery Day Being exhausted from the exertions of the congress we missed breakfast and in fact didnt wake up till after 1 in the afternoon!! Our first job was to find a laundry as most of our clothes were now sweaty from dancing and after asking at reception, we found a reasonably priced one a few blocks away. After dropping the laundry off we went back to the hostel and booked somewhere to stay for tomorrow and the next few days back in Miraflores where its ...

17th to 19th February Peru Salsa Congress For the next 3 days we were up at 9 to have breakfast and arrive at the congress in time for the first lesson of the day which supposedly started at 10, this of course never happened as the tech rehearsal ran over every day. We wondered what they do that takes 2 hours every morning!! Annoyingly this meant that the following workshops got cut short rather than running for the entire hour they should have!! Anyway the l...

Bachata Pre Party So today we got up for breakfast and at 12 o'clock duly went over to the Sheraton to register. There were only a couple of other people doing the same so we anticipated a quick in and out after which we could look round a bit more of the city. However after asking if we were dancers or spectators (obviously we and everyone else who came after us said dancers) they couldnt find our names on the list and we stood around waiting for them to get ...