Parador Santa Maria la Real Sucre

... a good thing or not. If you're even a tad claustrophobic it's a difficult thing to do, emotionally it's quite tough as the conditions are apparently awful. Because we're staying on in Sucre a bit longer than we first thought we probably won't go to Potosi now, which means the decision is taken away from us. There's a famous film (name unknown) which is run in Sucre quite regularly, I'll try and get to see that.<br><br><br>Laters<br>

... will definitely be in the next edition) it was recommended to us by the language school. It's clean, funky, well maintained, has a (clean) kitchen we can use and there's lots of relaxing space, inside and out. Most people staying here are 'long termers' doing either voluntary work or language classes.<br><br>Considering how high we are (2750) it's very hot in the day but it cools down enough in the evenings to make it very comfortable but not cold. The air ...

... capital of Bolivia and has a well-conserved center with beautiful colonial buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries. Moreover, it is a university city with many students and consequently parties everywhere, also many chic cafés and restaurants. If you are in Sucre, you can't believe that you are actually in Bolivia! It is a city to fall in love with. That's why we decided to stay longer in Sucre to rest from all the ...

... s ancient historical roots. Afterwards, we walked around town for a little bit, as we usually do, stopping by the market for Markus to do some shopping. He ended up haggling foreeeever just to get the price of some painting from like 25 dollasr to 22 or something like that, geez.. It's cool to haggle a bit, but it seemed a bit excessive to me to haggle for such a long time for just a little discount like that, especially considering the work that ...

... and DAd? well it was a fun way to hang out with my friends one last time and just stay up late. most nights in montanita though, i was in bed by 12 haha for some reason i was always tired there haha. well i think that is it for montanita. i have tons of memmories of there that i dont want to forget and i have lots of pictures to hopefully remember by. so i am sad to leave montanita but of course happy to for my trip to continue and to see other places.

... and it would be easier to get a bus from there. So back on the bus. We arrive in Riobamba and I manage to get some food and a bus within half an hour. And I´m told it´s 5 hours to Guayaquil. Fine. What I didn´t realise is 5 hours across the worst roads I´ve ever driven on through the Andes! Luckily I had two seats to myself and so managed to sleep for a bit of it! At least it was pretty. We wenr oce again through snow before descending into tropical condtions! So all ...

... espanol balbutiant devant une classe! heureusement je connaissais quelques chansons dont on a fait une dictee! puis un petit bac! le jeu a plutot bien marche et jai moi meme appris pas mal de noms de fruits et legumes! heureusement leur instit est arrivee a la recre a 10.30!jusquau dejeuner jassiste a la repetition dun spectacle de danse pour une journee sportive qui aura lieu en novembre. Dej avec Suzie et une de ses collegues et on se quitte je pars laprem ...

... so at the moment we are holed up in Guayaquil, not daring to move more than twenty paces from the nearest toilet! When we eventually ventured from the room we walked along the Malecon 2000 which is a riverside park leading up to Santa Ana which has great views of the city, all very slick, clean and cool and not at all like the rest of Guayaquil. We got tickets to the Galapagos where we´re off to tomorrow.

... in large groups and take over every place they encounter and rebuff any attempt by outsiders to engage them. Of course this is the stereotype and not all Israelis are like this. I know this first hand because I've met some great ones in the past year - Moshe, Reud, Neti.....WHERE ARE THE GOOD ONES LIKE YOU?? <br><br>I'm seriously getting to the point that I don't even give an Israeli a chance when I meet them. I find myself ...