Well we finally did it...We had a weekend where every member of our family was in good health! No spots, dots,fevers, runs, cramps, coughing or uncontrolled expulsions of meals and let me tell you we do appreciate it! School went well this week. Matti and Hunter are well into their science project...Hunter is trying to figure out which bread gro...

Arrived safe and sound, Coz flight delayed by 1 hour which made for a happy  reunion in Lima airport at 2.00am. Then to bed, both tired yet wired! Slept like babies and after breakfast spent some time organising and rearranging flights to Ica to view the Nazca Lines tomorrow. Corinne survived the longest Feb 22nd EVER, really the day just w...

PunakaulusMirella eetterissa! Huomasin etta viimeisin blogini paattyi: Ja ai niin. Siita se varmaan jatkuikin jotenkin,tietas vaan miten. Jatketaan randomilla. Parit Bocas detskut viela tahan: Bocasin herkkuina mainittakoon Playa Pauncilla jarjestetyt surffikisat, joihin blanco-kaksikko tietenkin suuntasi. Kavelymatkan piti olla jotain varttitun...

After an exhausting week of skiing in Steamboat, where I saw more snowfall in four consecutive days than I ever have, I jumped on an airplane in Denver and made my way down to Lima, Peru.  Arriving at 1:00 in the morning with a stomach half-full of culinary concoctions that are somehow dubbed airline meals, I easily passed through customs a...

We left Huacachina for our last bus journey in South America. It proved to be a smooth ride to Lima despite my numerous aches and pains. We passed through Pisco, which suffered a lot of damage during the recent earthquake. It's incredible what they've acheived here in just five weeks, and although many people are still living in t...

i almost was going to write this entry in spanish! yay, thatīs a good sign!! i had a nightmare the other night that i havenīt been speaking in enough spanish and i would return to the states without being fluent. que horrible! to explain the entry title: tomorrow is cassandraīs birthday party (a girl in my group) and she made it a peru themed co...

Wel dyma ni di cyrraedd. Ar ol sawl awr blinedig ar awyren o Lundain, tywyllwch a niwl a groesawodd ni i Periw. Er hynny, annodd iawn oedd peidio a teimlo yn andros o excited wrth i'r taxi blethu ei hun drwy traffic anhygoel a ffiwms y ddinas tuag at ein Hostel. Diwrnod o culture shock oedd hi heddiw wrth droedio ein camau cyntaf ar wlad yr Inca...

The next morning Armando, Erick, Valeria, Jean Carlos, Ernesto and I enjoy a late desayuno (breakfast). We ate fresh queso (white cheese), pan (bread), tamales, jugo (juice), te (tea), cafe (coffee)... After we eventually got ready for our day, we all went to centro (downtown) Lima. Downtown Lima was beautiful with its many colonial building...

WOW. Peru was truly amazing. I thought I would be underwhelmed by the ingenuity of the Inca's but I was wrong. Peru did not disappoint. We started in the hectic city of Lima and worked our way to the festival at Puno (Lake Titicaca) where the elevation of over 3,000 meters slowed us up a bit. We drank lots of Coca tea to fend off the altitude si...

Staying alive in order to witness the autumnal nuptials of my brother, Tom in my native Kernow, was a little harder than we first anticipated. We had allowed ourselves, what we thought was a generous two week window to cover the 1500 odd ks across Northern Peru to Lima for the flight back to Europe - We even included some contingency days into t...