Yesterday life returned to normal, with schools, work and activities and the town seems much more cheerful than when everyone was cooped up. The gloominess of jet lag, grey weather, 2 funerals, deteriorating house and aging in-laws, has lifted. Here is a photo of J’s 93-year-old father trying to patch the roof of the…
On Dec 30, A and N got the train to Prague to celebrate New Year’s Eve with some friends. On the 31st, J and I wandered down to the town square before midnight. The photo below shows the square just before the masses arrived. All ages were there but drunken teenagers predominated. Fireworks were everywhere…
My sister-in-law, daughters and I took the bus to the next town where there is a museum made up of a set of traditional old houses that were moved from the hillsides and assembled in a little wooden town. In summer there are folkloric festivals with singing and dancing and lots of people. It was…
This afternoon we met the other people who will be on our 4-day cruise – 2 Australians, 2 Dutch, 1 Irish, and us. We were taken to lunch and then to the tortoise area here on Santa Cruz Island. Saw about 6 or 8 giant tortoises, including one blocking the road on the way in…
Today we walked to Tortuga Beach – several kilometers away but very beautiful. Perhaps one of the most beautiful beaches anywhere. This afternoon, coming back, everyone in the shops was watching Ecuador play Argentina in a World Cup qualification game. Ecuador won 2-o so people have been driving around honking horns.
Monday afternoon we started a 2-night visit to Isabela Island – a package including transport, guide, hotel, meals, horseback riding. Into a boat with 2 Yamaha 175 motors and away we hurtled, bouncing for 2 hours. I had taken a precautionary Gravol at the start, when they asked if we got seasick and offered plastic…
We arrived here from Guayaquil on Saturday (I think) with the arrangements made from our hostel there, for a hotel and a 4-day cruise starting on Friday June 12. We met up with a German woman travelling by herself and shared our triple room with her. Then yesterday on the street we met a German…
>We found our way to the regular bus station in Cuzco yesterday and got on a bus to Urubamba (1 -1 1.5 hours, but we´re not paying much attention to the clock=, where we changed to a crowded mini van for the half hour to Ollantaytambo. From Ollantaytambo we had tickets for the train to…
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