Football fever!

Trip Start Feb 10, 2006
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Trip End Feb 01, 2007


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Friday, June 23, 2006

Another overnight journey and with a driver who thinks he´s in some sort of rally - no stops till he got hungry which meant lots of crossed legs as we prayed for a bathroom. Made it in one piece despite all the bends and roadside crosses. Can really feel the altitude now as I puff and pant up every flight of stairs (or maybe I am just an unfit so and so?)

Found a very friendly little hotel with a sunny balcony and hot(ish) showers...all very jolly till I woke up covered in bites! Met an English guy who´s staying in a posh hotel and is totally covered too so I guess the fleas don´t stick to the dives. Shall go back to using my wonderful sleeping bag!

Weather is wonderful, people are much more friendly, food is...pretty poor actually but we have the football!!!! Busy street
Busy street
 ! Spend most days in a pub that is ¨not just for Gringos¨ although I´ve yet to see anything but. Still they have a big screen and plenty of atmosphere (but why are English fans always the most obnoxious???)

Spend our days pottering round the town, admiring the old colonial buildings and avoiding the shoe shine boys (how they plan to shine a pair of brown suede sandals is beyond me). The shops consist mainly of internet cafes (full of bored teenagers playing computer games) and shoe repair shops. Not many cafes now as there is less of a Spanish influence here - lots of locals in bowler hats and layers of petticoats selling very juicy and very cheap oranges. Feel like we´ve been here forever but it´s time to move on!
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bogtalk
bogtalk on Jul 30, 2006 at 02:21AM

fleas?
I stayed in a posh hotel in sucre a couple of years ago and did not suffer a single bite. Perhaps they are seasonal, although it was also in the winter.
The city actually has a number of museums and historical buildings worth visiting. In one of them an early argentine flag is on display, apparently save after a battle with the Spanish forces.
We did find a vegetarian restaurant but it seemed a little crowded and pricey by bolivian standards.
We kept looking and found a full-service restaurant in a hotel which offered a complete dinner for the incredible price of 10 b. This is less than the price of a dinner at a senior center in the US. And I agree that the shoe-sine boys around the central plaza are numerous and offer to shine shoes that cannot be shined. Guess that was the low point of sucre. The high point was probably the trip to the dino tracks.
Bogtalk

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