Hostal Sucre

Early start today as a woke up at 6am after an extremely early night. After breakfast Sylvia and Milton took me to the food market where they picked up the weeks shopping. the first fruit stalls were spectacular. The fruit was arranged perfectly and the colours were amazing. Inside there were more stalls, some selling veg, some selling potatoes, others selling crokery and others sellng various meats. I wish i hadnīt of seen them buying the meat. they werenīt in fridges just on cold tiled slab...

After a relatively comfortable overnight bus from La Paz to Sucre (well Gareth had some old bat carrying a few extra pounds trying to pummel his legs by forcing her chair further back than was possible, so then he spent the journey kicking the back of her chair, sound familiar Glenys?) we arrived into Sucre early on a Sunday morning. In need of a coffee it was a struggle to find anything that was open before 12pm, actually it was a struggle to find anything open on a Sunday at all. We stumble...

Sucre is alweer een mooie stad, gekenmerkt doordat alle gebouwen in het centrum wit zijn. Beetje rondgewandeld, het lekkerste eten tot nu toe in Zuid-Amerika gegeten (Frans restaurant, met z`n tweeen ongeveer 12 euro in totaal), Ierse meiden ontmoet die we eerder op de Salar hadden ontmoet, wezen drinken met hun, champions-league gekeken in een bar met een Nederlandse eigenaar, hier soortemet bitterballen gehad. Op de laatste dag naar het `dinosauruspark` geweest (met een afgrijselijk toerist...

I sign up for spanish lessons the afternoon I arrived and from then for a whole week I did almost nothing but study. I say almost nothing.. The people in the hostal were great it was more like a new family than just friends they were so nice and everyone looked after each other. We would all go out together to bars and things or play cards or other crazy games or just cuddle up in front of the absolutely tiny TV. I met lots of people I really want to see again. Most of them were English or at...

Well it had to happen I guess as the kids insist that something always goes wrong when we go away... theyve have been trying to ban our trips due to this problem...haha So a couple of days ago we received an urgent email from Lia saying she couldnt get us on the phone and could we ring..mmmm...not good... On ringing we discover that Mollys cruciate ligament in the "good leg" has gone. Big problem - We know this will be causing chaos for the kids who are at work all day.. Mollys in pain and do...