Monday 18th January, 2016 So as slowly as our Galapagos experience was, in arriving, it's now nearly at an end. We're packed and ready to go and as our final thanks to the crew are done after breakfast we board our Pangas for one final time. We've loved our time on the Queen of the Galapagos. She's a very comfortable ship, roomy for 16 travellers in 8 well fitted cabins. A little tired in places maybe but the crew of 8 have kept her spotless and ...

10th Jan 2016Quito is a large city of around two and a half million people. The properties range from tiny one room shacks clinging to the side of hills that surround the outskirts, to many, many flats of various types and sizes from the very basic to the quite large, Spanish styles. The huge range of rich and poor is the same as in most parts of the world and although we travelled through a great deal of Quito on our travels, we personally didn't see any beg...