Hello - or should than be Hola? We´ve had a slight change of pace this last week; we´ve slowed down a bit and stayed in the same place for 10 days. "Why?" we hear you ask, well we decided that, as we are going to be in South America for a while, we should make more of an attempt at the language, so we signed ourselves up for an intensive bout of Spanish lessons (erm...sorry Brazil you just get the phrase book). So we are in Sucre a beautiful colonia...

Humm bit of a strange blog to write this one and we're not quite sure how to approach it. We're in the highest city in the world - Potosi in Bolivia. History buffs out there may know it as the economic heart of the Spanish empire - due to the phenomenal amount of silver that was found in its mountains. I won't go into it here but "Wikipedia" the town it's a fascinating read. Anyway this city was founded on mining and the mining still goes on today, a...

Ah Bolivia ... it sounds so far away and remote doesn't it? We left Chile on a 4x4 tour across the desert and into Bolivia, past high Andean lagoons and on to the world biggest (and most pretty damn amazing) salt lake. As we joined our tour Polly announced that she had left her toothpaste in the hotel. Being the wise traveller that he is Pete loudly declared "Don't worry I'm pretty sure you can get one at the boarder". Two hours later we stood on a hi...