Okay, so it's not as bad as the title suggests. Quito Old Town is really, really pretty and has some beautiful churches (including one covered entirely in 26kt gold leaf on the inside) etc. But life at 2,900 metres above sea level is tough on the lungs... especially when you've got a cold (as both of us do). We had a lovely first day, wandering around the town, popping into churches, going to a rubbish museum - the highlight of which being some incredibly 'grap...

Okay, so this isn't really a blog (and we'll update the stuff we've done before today - which has been great - some time later), this is just to say our professional wedding photos are online in case you want to take a look. Here's how: 1. Go to http://www.edwardtyler.com 2. Click on the 'client area' tab 3. Click on our image/name (or select from the drop-down menu) 4. Password is our surname. From there it's hopefully self-explanatory. You can either ...

Final day on Galapagos - not much to say, but more photos to share. We were up at 5.45 to go friggate-spotting on Batra island, seeing Great Friggates and Magnificent Friggates (no modesty here). The males inflate their bright red wattle to impress the lay-deez and we joined them right in courting season. Galapagos (Batra) Airport is pretty mental. Without information screens, the system appears to me mainly based on pushing and shouting but we made it on the ...

So... these Galapagos blog entries are rather more detailed than the others, aren't they? Well, I guess we just saw more stuff (and this is here so we remember stuff too). We awoke to find ourselves moored by Santa Fe island and Panga'd over to see massive Land Iguanas (big and bright yellow), cacti (bigger) and a Galapagos hawk (also big, eating a placenta).But enough about that - we then went and swam with sharks! Wicked. We snorkelled in a gorgeous bay - pr...

Excitement started early today as, during breakfast, crew member Jonathan spotted what he thought were whales in the distance. Within a couple of minutes, we'd all jumped in the pangas to try to get closer to them. It turned out they were in fact dolphins, and we got pretty darn close as they swam and lept around us in a feeding frenzy (like you see on Blue Planet, where they herd the fish). On to Española Island on Punta Suarez to see mroe sea lions... in...