De Su Merced Sucre

... it's obvious why. It's often full so if you fancy coming to stay for a while book up in advance. We didn't realise how lucky we were just turning up on the doorstep and getting a room for 7 days (although we have extended to next weekend (21st) but since we've been here the 'completo' sign has been up more than not. Most people staying here are doing Spanish lessons and/or voluntary work, one woman is studying quechua (the ...

... side. We bought pasta, rice, potatoes, turnips, carrots, onions, garlic, apples, oranges, butter, sugar, salt, oregano, oil, tomatoes, peas, oatmeal, yougurt, and bread. Previously we had bought some juice, canned fruit, and chocolate. It was rather fun. It ended up working out to about $30 US for all that. Expensive life we´re living. <br>Then Felipe drove with us to our new home, Peregira Pampa. It was way up in the Andes, in the middle of nowhere ...

... kan zien lijkt het leven hier elke dag in het teken van de dood te staan.<br><br>Potosí naar Sucre <br>Die avond zijn we met een taxi naar Sucre gegaan. Dit was een avontuur op zich. Er stond een leeg blikje bier als artefact in de bekerhouder. We hebben hierover meerdere keren kritische vragen gesteld. De chauffeur zag er rustig en helder uit, dus toch maar akkoord gegaan. De prijs E12, dus E3 per persoon, en de reistijd 2 uur. Toen ...

... to La Paz which is the capital and apparently a very cool city, potentially a great place to spend my birthday this Saturday. Then we spent the afternoon in the cinema, of course, some spy flick with Julia Roberts and Clive Owen. Was quite good but apparently in Bolivia the cinema is the place where teenagers go to make out and be a general nuisance so I now know how to say "shut the f### up!" in Spanish. Had a relaxing evening before catching up on some much needed sleep.<br><br>Next ...

... I´m severely lacking in vocabulary. I understood about 80% of what she was saying, and she understood me the whole time, so it was I was quite impressed with myself because this was the most I´d ever talked in Spanish since I was 17; when in shops and restaurants or hostels so far I´d never really had more than the most fleeting of conversations.<br><br>After this I did lots of blogging in an internet cafe at a computer with a hideous menace of a spacebar that sporadically refused to do its ...

... was unbelievably big. At one point we entered a giant circus tent to find out to was a giant carcass tent. All sorts of meat was being sold in this tent and the smell was absolutely horrible. So as you imagine we did not stay for long. I bought some fruits and vegetables and went back to the hostel to eat them. And then we boarded another overnight bus to Santa Marta.<br>

I've just lot another entire day's update (the PCs in Bolivia really are ****), but fortunately we didn´t do much today so it was a short one anyway.<br><br>We arrived at the bus station and took a taxi to our hotel.<br><br>The hotel we'd booked was really basic but ok, so we freshened up and then went for a wander.<br><br>We found a fantastic pub which served homemade Belgian style beers and ...