Thursday, 21st January 2016 Torteguero is a typical rain forest village set around the river. It rains! It is warm rain, but it drenches down. This morning we are off into the rain forest for a walk, as its rained most of the night and the river levels have risen dramatically we are putting on rather fetching Wellington boots of the very plain black variety - no Hunters or pretty pink spotted Joules here! - and trundling off firstly via boat to wander and see wh...

19th & 20th January 2016 So Tuesday 19th and we're on our way to Quito airport for the final time, our Taxi driver wants to chat, in Spanish the whole 45 minutes, even though Peter tells him we speak Poco ( a little) of his language, we have a great laugh trying to keep up with him, so we head to check in and enjoy a sandwich in a bar close to our gate, but what we don't realise is they are calling our names at gate 9 and when Peter gets to check our fli...

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 ...

Sunday 17th January 2016 So in this month of January my family have birthdays as you may have read in earlier reports, today is Peter's. You will hear more about that later, but to my most wonderful partner, in travel and in life, Happy Birthday darling. After opening his cards, from family, friends and neighbours, which I've had hidden throughout the trip so far, Peter wants this birthday to go totally unnoticed by our fellow travellers - Mmmmmm that&#...

Saturday 16th January 2016 Each night as we leave one island usually late after dinner, and head to our new destination the anchors are raised, the engines grind into gear and if like Peter and I if you are in Cabin 3 and immediately above the engine room, you can't help but wake up. Each night we are so utterly exhausted after our days adventures we collapse into bed at the very latest, around 9 so by the time we hopefully move off you can get a few hours s...