So finally we arrived in Quito pretty tired, and headed straight for hostel Bask, Very nice and five quid a night for a private on-suite room. We´ve done a bit of exploring so far, visiting the old town and some very old churches. The biggest thing here seems to be shoe shining, tonnes of little boys roam the streets with black hands and shoe polish at the ready, along come Dan and I, nike trainers an´ all and they enthusiastically ask us "shoe shine se...

Why are we blogging from Guayaquil I hear you ask when out last post stated we were leaving for Quito. Well, checking in at Caracas airport we were told there was a problemo with the flight and we´re not landing at quito but instead were off to Guayaguil, Ecuadors 2nd largest city, 200 miles south of quito, where we will change planes onto a domestic flight. In the waiting lounge we get talking to a couple from Sweden who can speak spanish and tell us the ai...

Waved Adios to the crew of the SV Illusion and took a taxi in the afternoon to Trinidad airport to sleep for the night. Flight check-in was 5am and a nightime taxi is 50 percent more, so we bedded down in the airport. ---Sleeping in Trinidad Airport--- Comfortable rating 2/10 Ambient noise 8/10 Food & Drink availability 5/10 Alltogher a Team Cooper overall rating of; *** Acceptable *** Arrived in Caracas with two days before our next flight on to Ecuador....

Have recieved a few emails from ya'll saying the video diarys don't work. This site won't allow you to stream them, you have to download the whole file. They are big files so set it up and be patient. They are worth the wait. We sailed out of St. Lucia and headed South, back to where it all began, Trinidad. The sail took around 40 hours and we split the crew into three watches. Three hours on watch and six hours off. Rotating like this you get a maximum of six h...

We left the Grenadine Islands sailing North to a new and unexplored island called St. Vincents. Sailing into a bay to anchor for the night our skipper is shouting "aim for the giant gallows"! Urrrrrr, what! I thought hanging was illegal, but judging by the huge size and excellent condition of the gallows on the end of the pier, hanging was still a regular beachside pastime for the locals of St. Vincent. As we got closer it all seemed to ring a little bell and the...