Galapagos Islands - Day 1 We left Quito in the morning and headed to the airport to fly to Baltra Island. It was late departing as they had put 3 flights together and we needed to stop in Guayaquil. They announced that everyone going to Galapagos stay on the plane so we did but then they started checking boarding passes and told us we needed to change planes, so we did. There was 3 of us on this Intrepid tour but we thought that people who booked separately from...

I have officially finished my spanish classes and had my last meal with the family today at lunch. This afternoon I got a taxi into Quito and joined my tour for the Galapagos. We had a meeting to go over the next week and I found out that our boat has been changed from a 'tourist superior' to luxurious catamaran. Apparently the boat that Intrepid used to use sunk in July and they now use the Archipel. Good for me. After our meeting we headed into the old city and...

One week of Spanish classes left and then off to the Galapagos which I'm quite excited about. On Friday night, another student arrived to live at the house and study for a month, Dascha from the USA. Although I have been ordered by Mariana to make sure I only speak Spanish.... Last week was a quiet one. On Tuesday arvo I headed into town in the arvo to meet up with Nikki, a fellow traveller who is going to be on the big tour of South America with me. We met thru...

So today in Spanish we started with past tense. Oh fun, more conjugation, just what I wanted.... Last week we worked on how to put sentences together and in what order. I have to forget everything I know in English because otherwise it just confuses me and doesn't make sense but I'm getting there. After I did my last blog, I headed home and I went for a walk with Mariana, the kids and a neighbour. I thought it would be for an hour or so. 3 hours later we are sti...

So I'm into my second week now of trying to learn Spanish. Some days I do OK and others just want to make me scream. Think I'm getting it when all of a sudden I find out there is 2 words for saying you know something, depending on what you know....URGH or the verb 'to go' is IR but if I'm saying 'I go...' I have to say 'Yo voy'. It doesn't look or sound like IR but that is the way it is. LOL So apart from spanish doing my head in I had a nice weekend. Saturday a...