Mon 14 April Another beatiful day - we have been so lucky with the weather. The sun is so hot during the day that it is easy to burn so quickly. Steph got up early for another local market visit. I opted for a lie-in. Joe and Heather not so good again today, and the masle geriatric, Bruce, had an ongoing case of Montezuma´s revenge. First stop t...

Hey everyone! This may be my last travelblog until I hit US soil as I do not know how much internet access I will have during my week of travel. Anyway- I wanted you to meet some of my housemates and tell you a little bit about my travels for next week. Bare with me though- I have already had like 4 glasses of vino. Well- the housemates and pict...

The pachamanca was delicious! But I am sure it tastes much better without a hangover and no sleep the night before. Saturday night I decided to venture out with Oli and Max to the discotequas, which was an interesting experience because they just wanted to hit on the Peruvian girls all night- so I ended up dancing with other girls for the most p...

Sat 12 April Joe and Heather arrived last night, both very unwell - a combinationof altitude, travel sickness and a dodgy piece of pork in Lima. They were grey and knackered - 12 hours in a rickety train from Lima is challenging, even if the scenery is so spectacular. They travelled up with 2 other couples - a pair of Kiwis who were to spend 6 m...

Tues 8 April A long night´s sleep for bothg us and Steph woke feeling somewhat better, but very weak. Breakfast, emails, and then back to clinic with Yuri. Doc examined Steph aagain and declared some improvement in her chest infection, no problems with her liver (not malaria again thankfully). Blood pressure fine, no need for blood tests and no ...

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven´t written in a few days, but as some of you know I got sick on Sunday...and fell down some stairs- so my first few days have been a bit rough. So what have I been up to you may ask? Well- I rode the train from Lima to Huancayo last Friday, which went up almost 15,000 feet and definitely made me sick- the coca tea did ...

We left Lima and headed up the Andes for Huancayo! An hour or so after leaving Lima we saw the sun for the 1st time since being in South America. The views out of the rather luxorious coach windows were spectacular, each valley was more tropical looking than the last and the the journey was more relaxing than we had thought it would be. We arriv...

wir stehen schon wieder frueh auf und erwischen unseren bus. doch die fahrt wird unterbrochen: ein schwer bewaffneter polizist zwingt uns zum umkehren, scheinbar sind keine stehplaetze erlaubt. der busfahrer faehrt also zurueck und wirft also alle raus, die keinen sitzplatz haben. wir haben einen. aetsch! also kann die reise losgehen. es geht au...

We´d taken a one carriage train at 6:30 am from Huancavelica to Huancayo and Ed provided entertainment for the locals when my 15 kilo backpack bounced off the luggage rack onto his head. I was worried for a moment that he was paralysed, but after I knew he wasn´t, I was laughing as hard as the locals. The trip was beautiful, winding slowly throu...

Had a really good week. I realise I haven´t really written much about the work I´m doing so here goes. I have been working mostly with the street kids programme. Up till this week it was fine but now all the other who worked there have left´. So I´m on my own with anywhere between 15 and 40 kids aged between 2 and 12. NIGHTMARE! Anyway I started...