SamLar

Hello Chicos! Finally, access to the internet (and a very confusing keyboard). We arrived safe and sound in Lima, Peru on tuesday after almost being unable to catch our last flight that had been overbooked. We spent the day exploring the city of Lima. Visitng the catacombs and wandering around the the main square. The fusion of culture throughout Peru is so apparent. Vibrant native traditions and colours synchronize themselves with colonial spanish arechitecture. We have been travelling down the coast of Peru and have already encountered a few adventures. Probably the biggest adrenaline rush so far was our day spent sand buggying. In Huacachina, a town smack dab in the desert, we were strapped in to moving contraptions while our driver zoomed over enourmous sand dunes. Screaming is unavoidable. We both got mouthfuls of sand. ... read more

Hello Everyone, it's been awhile as we have been having some action-packed, crazy adventures but once again we have emerged unscathed and amazed by the places we've been visiting and people we've been meeting. Venice was a city unlike any other that we've seen. Floating on the water, it is rich in history, beauty and tourists. Before we arrived, we met people who assured us that the only way to truly appreciate this area was to explore it by water boat - so this is what we did. We enjoyed two days of wandering the unique canals by boat and getting lost in the streets while on foot. We managed to locate the most enormous, delicious pizzas known to Italy (and our tastebuds) and checked out the location where "The Italian Job" was filmed. When ... read more

Hola chicos, We started off our expedition to Spain via the trains which always seem to promise one type of adventure or another. As we chugged along we passed by little inlets of villages by the Mediteranean. Just when we think we are getting used to our incredible surroundings, new and equally beautiful sights amaze us. Just to clarify the imagery: Sam and I are staring out the window crying (because everything is so overwhelming and we still can´t believe we´re here) and then the train shuts down. Used to the quirky train rides in Europe, we sat in our seats nonpulsed. Suddenly we heard the car door slam open and four men holding guns walk onto the train. They were all dressed like ordinary travellers minus one man standing at the back of the ... read more

Our last day in London we went and saw the musical Evita which was good and which we really enjoyed. Although nothing can compare to Equus. We almost went to the stage door on our last night in London to talk to the actors because we still couldn't stop thinking about the show but then we found a Canadian pub and stayed there instead. We even convinced the pub owners to switch the t.v. from a soccer station to a hockey one with our Canadian charm. On the 9th we took the train from London to Bath for a couple hours before continuing on to Swansea. Bath is the picturesque village famed for it's hot springs and used by early pagan Britons and then converted by the Romans into baths. We stumbled around in sheer ... read more

Sam and Larissa have arrived!!! The flight over here seemed to go by quickly and people were more than willing to switch their seats so we could sit together. The neatest (and most exhausting) part of the trip was watching the sun set and then two hours later watching it rise again from pink to red to yellow to day at 550 m/ph. When we arrived we were surprised at how fast we got out of the Heathrow airport- everyone had told us it was one of the world's worst so we were expecting a long wait but were surprised to get out of there in half an hour(!) and then we easily found our way to Andrew's on the tube. He lives 20 mins by tube from central London in a beautiful area of ... read more