Glorieta Hotel Sucre

... language). The evenings are very sociable times with most people cooking for themselves, and we all manage to work around each other in the kitchen, somehow!<br><br>We are having one to one tuition at the Bolivian School of Spanish (www.bolivianspanishschool.com ) which costs 6.50 usd an hour. It's easy to find private tutors for about 5 usd an hour, but as a teacher I think it's important that the person teaching has ...

... not good when you know the next 4 days are going to be on dirt roads. After a lot of 'what if we do this' and 'what if we do that' and getting onto the internet searching for bike shops in Bolivia. If only we were in Colombia or Peru, there would be lots of choice but sadly, we're in Bolivia and the only shop we can find is in la Paz. We mail them, only to find that the rim we need is not available online, you have to go to their shop in la Paz to collect it ...

... Noch am gleichen Tag nahmen wir einen Bus nach Sucre. Diese Busfahrt war mit Abstand die schlimmste bisher. Angefangen hat es damit, dass wir von unseren gebuchten Sitzen vertrieben wurden, weiter ging es mit einem unaushaltbaren Gestank und eisiger Kaelte. Flo, der am Fenster sass, bekam es leicht mit der Angst zutun, da wir mit einem ordentlich Tempo haarscharf an Abgruenden vorbeifuhren. Waehrenddessen versuchten der Niki und Ich, eingewickelt in unseren Jacken (was ...

... I think it´s about at the same altitude as Potosi, maybe a little higher, but not too much lower, based on how I feel now getting back to Potosi. <br>To describe the landscape, both desolate and beautiful would apply. There is so little vegetation, only scrub bushes here and there. I think I saw a total of 10 trees in all my wandering. Some of the slopes are terraced into fields, though it still utterly baffles me how they manage to grow anything at ...

... instapten ontdekten we dat de taxi een disco-taxi was. De vloermatten waren van geribbeld goud, er hingen twee discoballen aan het plafond en toen de auto begon te rijden bleken er knipperende lichtjes tussen ons voeteneinde en rondom het achterraam verstopt te zijn. De chauffeur had een verzamel CD met Europese disco hits uit de jaren 80 opgezet, en de lampjes knipperde met het ritme mee van de muziek. Op het moment dat hij SMS-end een ...

... headed out on a local bus to check out a paleontological site (probably spelt that wrong) which was basically a quarry in which a load of actual dinosaur footprints have been found, the largest in the world they said. It was pretty lame as it happens because you could only see the footprints from about 100m away, but it was different and something to do. After that we had some lunch then have spent the afternoon with our fingers crossed in anticipation of tonights 12 hr overnighter to La Paz.<br>

... boulders of rocks as roads, are just terrifying. They are very narrow and generally, you face on the one side the gigantic rocks of the Andeans, on the other side a steep downhill side where you can't see the ending of the fall. It gets worse when you consider the transportations! The most cars and buses are imported from Japan and China which are already depreciated in those countries. But in Bolivia, these cars are in full charge and ...

After a 3 hour bus ride on paved roads (a huge thing for transportation in Bolivia) and dropping around 2,000m (ears popping constantly) we arrived in Sucre. Sucre is one of Bolivia´s capitals, Bolivia has 2 capitals, we thought our world atlas was wrong but apparently not. Sucre is the constitutional capital and La Paz the administrative capital. <br><br>Sucre is another beautiful town and by far the largest we have been to in Bolivia so far ...

... properly, leading to much re-editing of sentences. On the way out I noticed that Grandpa Grabby Hands was still in the street, molesting pedestrians. For dinner I went to the place we´d been to the day before, Pizzeria Napolitana, and had a nice pizza which I customised as a La Reine as it wasn´t on the menu and it´s my favourite. I also spent a while planning the rest of my travels in South America. The staff in the restaurant are really friendly. I had a beer too, then went back to bed ...

... had a small cinema upstairs.<br><br>We booked bus tickets to Potosi tomorrow, unsuccessfully tried to get some DVDs of photos burnt and had an enjoyable lunch in another nice cafe off the main square.<br><br>We came back to the pub later and really enjoyed the film (Amores Perros), which we watched on a nice comfy couch with a couple of beers. <br><br>We also decided to change hotels and found ...