My next stop is Aberdeen. I was meant to stop for a few hours in Dundee on the way, but they didn't have anywhere to store luggage, and seeing that carrying everything around all day wasn't an option, I just continued north. Aberdeen is the oil city of Scotland, equivalent to Stavanger in Norway. It's called the 'granite city' because all the buildings are, well... granite. It leaves a rather grey and hard expression and it isn't really my kind of place. At this ...

I follow a 'lead' I was given the night before, and book a room in a small fishing village north of Edinburgh. It is in the county of Fife. 'I ance kent a man who had been to Crail' said a man one time when asked if he had been abroad. Crail is south of St. Andrews. Fortunately for everyone involved Scotland isn't huge, otherwise I would be really ticked off by having to go all the way to St. Andrews from Edinburgh and then south again to Crail. People are friend...

It seems it takes forever to fly from Alicante to Edinburgh. Honestly, it's just inside of Europe, just up the street from Spain. I didn't imagine it would take that many hours. I'm so blasé at this point, I don't read my ticket properly. But it isn't all bad though, I spend all this time sitting between two Scottish women, and I thoroughly enjoy listening to this juicy rolling dialect, my absolute favourite of all the ways of speaking English. I have had Scotla...

Cusco is the point through which all our travels go and this time we're splashing out on a very nice train ride from Puno. It's the Andean Explorer and the train goes through spectacular scenery in the ten hours it takes to get there. We are mighty impressed by the cart we're in - it's like a nice restaurant or living room. In the back there is a viewing cart were people can better take photos or just sit in the sofa and enjoy the ride. We see llamas and so many ...

We take the plane from Cusco to Juliaca and are picked up by a taxi from the hotel in Puno, the town next to Lake Titicaka were we will spend about two weeks. We immediately see the change in the landscape. We're another 500 metres higher than in Cusco, but the landscape is very flat. Once there we are stunned by the beauty of the place, and the hotel is so nice. The view from our window is breathtaking, the window, the length of the outfacing wall we can see the...