Saturday 17 March 2012 Not much more to say that have hung out on the beach at Canoa, in my own pavilion, being offered jugo, agua, cerveza, etc by vendors passing by after a very healthy fruit salad breakfast with crepe at a nearby hotel restaurant. Must make an attempt to cut down on all that carbohydrate consumption now that I have control of what I am eating day-to-day. Canoa is known as a good surfing place: it´s got regular waves and the beach is fair...

Friday 16 March 2012 - The Last Farewells We woke up to a slightly overcast but dry day and immediately started to finish the last packing up: squeezing and pushing things into our overfull backpacks - certainly true in my case - including dismantling our mosquito nets and stripping our beds of linen. We made our apologies via Alex for not wanting to take part in a last-minute interview comparing La Hesperia/Ecuador to our respective countries and made our ...