So this is just a quick blog entry to let you know about the other side of year long holidays. You see it's not all beautiful places, exciting activities and amazing people (although yes most of it is). But it is also very trying days like this. Enjoy... So we had a great few final days with Rach and Joel we visited a desert, went sandboarding (narly) drank lots of pisco wine and sailed round some islands viewing incredibly wildlife - did you know that seals sti...

In Spanish the letter ´h´ is silent and the letter ´J´ is pronounced as a soft ´h´. What this interesting little linguistic fact means is that lots of people who we´ve met in Peru have trouble saying Joel´s name. Instead they say ´Hole´ this amused us greatly and kept us entertained for hours. Another interesting Peruvian habit is to outright lie about the length of time something takes. It is apparently perfectly acceptable to add an hour to any lengt...

After rubbing our 8 aching legs it was time to push on to Lake Titicaca. Unfortunately this meant for me and Polly an 8 hours journey back down the road that we'd travelled on a week ago. We only mentioned this fact to Rach and Joel about 5 or 6 times. Thankfully I think someone had alerted the bus company to this fact so they put on some special entertainment for us namely a very old woman who sang in the most high pitch out of tune voice we have ever heard (s...

Back in December you may remember that we interrupted our RTW jaunt to return to the UK for a wedding and Christmas. This meant we spent New Year's Eve in an English country cottage having a very drunk conversation with our very good friends Rachel and Joel. Some of the best things in life happen because of these drunken conversations and guess who has now joined us for three weeks in Peru to walk the Inca Trail ... Rach and Joel The trek was absolutely incredib...

Hello, Well it's been a busy week or so since we last ´spoke´ and what a crazy old time we´ve been having so brace yourself for quite a loooonnnng blog. La Paz capital of Bolivia: mental place. In appearance it's pretty breathtaking as it fills a whole valley, with houses (or rather shacks) clinging onto every available inch of ground. The wealthy live in the base of the valley where the air is clearer and then it's a sliding scale up to the top where the ai...