Well, would you be surprise if I told you that I had another crap nights sleep last night.... Probably not!!! You guessed it, ships motors powering up overnight is enough to wake the dead.... So for me it was just another night of no sleep on the Galápagos cruise!!! But nothing was going to dampen my day today..... as today was giant Galápagos tortoise day.... hopefully!! I didn't want to put a mozza on it... as everytime I have really wanted to see somethin...

This morning I was woken at 4am by what I can only describe as an earth quake occurring in my room. In a daze, I soon remembered that I was on a boat, and that shaking and loud noise was the boat. I honestly thought that we had been sailing all night, and that they were dropping the anchor. I thought that my room must have been located near the anchor storage facility. However after a couple of minutes, the noise was still going, and I soon realised that we h...

This morning I woke up, ready to face my next location.... Galápagos!!! Surprisingly my shower worked just fine... Although it did take a lot longer for the hot water to make its way through the pipes. After breakfast, we checked out of the hotel and waited in the foyer for our guide who was to help us navigate Quito airport today. It was a half decent trip to the airport, made that little bit longer by the fact that it was peak hour traffic. But we always s...