Friday, 2nd July Showered, called Jorge who took us to the airport. $31 each airport tax the cheeky b*****s. Gobsmacked Panama is so expensive so we looked into flying to Guatemala or Mexico, $476 each to Guatemala or $780 each to Mexico so have decided to go with original plan and go by Tica bus. The lovely ladies at the tourist info rang the bus station for us and found out that there are seats available for tonight so we got a cab to the bus depo another $...

Thursday, 1st July Amazing scenery through the mountains and one of the best roads, think Tom'll be back on the bike. Arrived in Lima at 3pm so both seriously glad we didn't get the bus this evening. Jorge Chevara, our taxi driver found us a nice Hostel with a power shower not electric. Saw a woman in the park who as soon as she turned up was surroundd by around 30 cats which came out of nowhere, she obviously went there every night. Lovely church off the pa...

Sunday, 27th June Our direct bus to Cusco that Soloman assured us was the quickest way to go turned into a taxi to the border, another taxi to a main road where the guy we were with kept flagging down buses until one with enough room picked us up! We did make it to Cusco and went out for a lovely pizza and heard that England had lost to Germany so are out of the World Cup! Monday, 28th June Had a lazy morning watching the football in an Irish bar, even in Per...

Thursday, 24th June Bus from La Paz to Copacabana. Met Soloman at the bus station who runs Hostal gabriel where we are now staying, our room gets the afternoon sunshine so is very cozy. Nice to get of the bus and sorted quickly. The town is a nice size to walk around, we went straight down to the water front and saw the fisherman out in boats and a beautiful sunset over the lake which looks like the sea it goes right out to the horizon line. Friday, 25th Jun...

Monday, 21st June Slept all but an hour of the 12 hour journey, straight to a decent hostel and out to explore, bit tricky as we both seem to have achy legs. Found the famous Prison (Carcel de San Pedro) in Plaza Sucre and some dodgey bloke who was 'in there for 8 years', said he could get us in for £80 and a copy of our passports-we smiled and think we'll ask around. Took it easy for the rest of the day wathing Chile win the football and updating the blog. ...