This will be my last blog. At least for a little while. Thanks for reading guys, just a few little bits and pieces to tidy up: What follows where we left off is many hours of painful waiting to get home. On buses, each second lasted for two. In airports, a five hour wait turned out to be eight. But we got there in the end and, safely back in the U.K., I remain the owner of all my belongings (apart from my sister's dictionary...) and all limbs. I'd say that deserves a round of applause. And so ends that [View Full Entry]

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Quite a bit to be updated on, so bear with me.... So last Thursday we took the kids to the Zoo. It all went very well, even the part where we squashed eleven niños and six adultos into one of the micros. The Friday before we had done T-shirt painting with the kids, so at the Zoo they all wore their little masterpieces with "childhood" written across every one (without using letters). The zoo was pretty unfair to the little animals with tiny cages, but the kids seemed to enjoy it. Then came Friday; my last day in La Paz [View Full Entry]

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It was a sunny Saturday afternoon in La Paz and Ian and Jeanette were bimbling about when suddenly they decided to go to Lake Titicaca right there and then. Advised that the last bus that day to Copacabana left at 1600, they packed quickly, left a note for the others and set out with a buzz of excitment in the air. Woolfing down a Ceaser Salad with Chicken, the pair proceeded to direct a taxi to the bus terminal. Unfortunately, as it turns out, La Paz has two bus terminals and busses to Copacabana went from the other. By now [View Full Entry]

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So I ate dinner today for 35p (3Bs). And I mean proper mountain of rice, salad and meat kind of dinner. Admittedly, it came with a side order of salmonela...but that's not the point. This is probably the one thing I like most about La Paz: the food markets. There's this really big table and everyone sits around it together and grabs some cheap food from one of the little fat ladies in white who cook it just there. It's got a massive sense of community to it, with the shoe shine boys and professionals all eating together. Today everyone [View Full Entry]

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Good news! I am now half way through my South American adventure and I still have all limbs entact. I also have only had one throwing-up spell (see an earlier blog...) making a reputation for my stomach of steel. So, what's new? Well, today with the children we bought a huge piece of cloth and got them all to put their handprints on. It's amazing. I've also been doing a bit of Maths with the kids (Edilson, aka Boy Genius, is pretty smart. I'm taking him back to England and getting him to make me money on the Stock Market. He's [View Full Entry]

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So yesterday we travelled on bicycle down "Death Road" - also know as the World´s Most Dangerous Road. It has that name for a reason. In the last six months, forty-three people have died travelling along it. You´re cylcing along, thinking to yourself "If I loose control of this bike, even for a few seconds, I have a 1000 metre drop awaiting me." We start off on paved road downhill. I went so so fast. Ãt´s unreal. I didn´t even realise a bike could go that fast. Then there´s a little bit of uphill and flat. It nearly killed me. At [View Full Entry]

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Well it´s a Saturday - my first lazy day for as long as I can remember. Today we´re bimbling slowly. We want to buy a book box for our kids at some point, and I fancy heading to the Tourist Information Centre to see if there´s anything exciting happening in the next little while (there´s a "teatro aire libre" here...) and I also need to make a decision concerning balancing the degree of pain I want to put myself through to get back to Santiago in a few weeks, but other than that, bimbling slowly. Incidently, tomorrow we´re going to be [View Full Entry]

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Phase Two is well under way. This, this is my day: (poet) The mornings are relaxed. Normally I can wake at 8.30ish and head on into town, grab some food from one of the fat ladies with their little stalls and sit in the square watching the world go by. I´ve done this a few times and so now the locals come up and talk to me, chat for a while and then invite me to their houses to drink coca tea that evening. At 10.30 starts my two hour Spanish class with Isabel. Always half way through I get bored [View Full Entry]

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Greetings from La Paz! Oh yes indeedy, we actually made it, marking the end of the "moving" phase of the journey. It was an insane journey up here; in a week we´ve done so so many miles and had so many adventures. We did the whole spend a day in one city, spend ten hours on the bus that night, spend the next day in the next town and repeat to fade. That was through all of Argentina at least. It´s been facsinating seeing the change in landscape, people, living standards.. as we travel on up. The most marked change was [View Full Entry]

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Well. Here we are. Tomorrow, I have a plane to catch to Santiago, Chile. After that, I'm not entirely sure where I'll be going or what I'll be doing. With a bit of luck I'll be back by the 20th July though. Written from various internet cafe's in Chile and Bolivia (other than this first time; I'm in Maidstone), should let you all know what's ahappening in-between and all that jazz. That's the plan, anyway. [View Full Entry]

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