La Dolce Vita Sucre

Having said goodbye to Viks on Saturday as she returned to Blighty, Helen &amp; I flew to Sucre, Bolivia´s capital, just in time to see the last 10 mins of Eng v Oz - wasn´t I glad I made the effort!! I hope the Northern Hemisphere teams show some improvements over the next couple of games...<br><br>Anyway, after a disappointing visit to a local market on Sunday, I persuaded Helen we should ...

... descended out of the clouds and it was actually quite warm. The paintings were impressive and we were the only ones there which made it even better.<br>On the way out we came across the guard carrying his son out to hospital - makes you realise how spoilt we are when he has to carry his son for a couple of hours to get to the road and then to travel another couple of hours to Sucre....we gave them a lift in our car which ...

... we were happy with but we needed to borrow a pot. We did our best to convey this (which involved using the dictionary for the word pot) but it was all really very ambigous. Lorenza and Maxina were going to bring us some meals, for which we agreed to give them 10 bolivians per meal, and possibly bring us a pot also. We arranged with the teachers that we would start music in the school the next morning. <br>Felipe was helping us get settled and gave us a ...

... She did look on us with pity as she dragged her bag through our sleeping quarters to a nice comfy seat as us gringo´s were left to slum it on the dirty wet floor. It was devestating bit believe it or not I actually took the whole episode quite calmly, I simply laid down and set my bag as a pillow and prayed there were not weak bladdered people on the bus as a toilet stop would require a complete evacuation as the aisles were so narrow. I did struggle to get comfortable as my pockets ...

... of the exploring of Sucre until Wednesday when the sun was shining again :) That night we headed out for a few drinks and a nice meal, determined to check out the nightlife. We ended up in a bar recommended by our bibles (lonely planet and footprints), although we had to wake the barman to get served, so not exactly a lively night!!!!<br><br>On Wednesday we headed up a hill for a viewpoint. Struggling with the climb at altitude, Ben wasn&#8217;t looking where he ...

... as during the Salt Flats trip I had come to realise that in every photo taken against a light background, there was a dark seagull-shaped piece of dirt in the bottom left. Every sodding photo. I can only assume that the bloke who removed the sand from my camera in Arequipa negligently allowed this horror to happen, meaning that on my return I´ll have the best part of a hundred photos that need retouching to remove the aforementioned menace. Anyway, the shop was run by a Japanese couple ...

... painted in bright colours. They said she was to keep me company after they leave, and also for posing in some silly photos; it was very lovely of them. I had a pizza, but Nicki only had tea as she had previously had a milkshake, and, as she deftly put it, "I saw it twice". Bolivia just makes us ill!<br><br>After this we went back to the hostel. Nicki and Claire got all of their stuff together, and we went back outside. We hailed a ...