After barely any sleep and thinking incessantly about places to move and to whether to buy a board or not I got out of bed and made my way to the market. I talked to a few locals asking them about the best fish to buy and how to cook it etc and settled on a nice 1/2 kg of whiting type fish - coming to a total of $1.20. I then met up with a guy called Angelo a local Couchsurfer with his own little business renting boards, wetsuits and teaching surfing. He seemed m...

Today the aim was to continue looking for accomodation and maybe find a board and a wetsuit to buy or hire. I got up early which is a rate thing around here, most people tend to sleep all day after big nights out. At about 10 my new friend Nemo came around and took me to a few places to look at - one of them was really nice, quiet, own room, bathroom, satellite tv and kitchen and the woman was asking about $170 a month for it which seems really cheap but could pr...

It's going to take a little getting use to this sharing a room thing again but overall I had a half decent sleep and I am really liking this hostel. I got up in the morning did my exercises then went for a wonder around the city. There was another Independence Day parade happening here so the streets were jam packed with people. I walked around checking out lots of hostels, hostals, hospedajes and hotels - seeing if I could get a decent price for a month long sta...

I am really starting to enjoy having my own room, privacy and a tv - it's amazing these things I used to take for granted make me so happy now. However today is the day I need to make a decision and so at 10am I went down the bus station and made the decision to head South to Trujillo - Peru. Trujillo is a large city: pop- 850,000 but just outside of the city there are some very nice surfing beaches. After lunch I made my way to the station and what chaos it was ...

Today I had nothing really planned and wasn't sure if I would head North to Ecuador or South to Trujillo. As it was Sunday I thought it would be a good idea to checkout the local markets and my god what chaos, people, kids, chickens, cars - pushing, bumping yelling complete chaos but organized chaos. My aim was to find Raisens - usually an expensive treat in this country, after a bit of searching I found cheap Raisens and brought 1/4 kg only to 5 minutes later fi...