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So, I thought I should probably do one last blog entry to update those readers (those that exist...?) about what happened to me and Rose (and why I could no longer face updating this blog afterwards). Ok so we left off in Cusco, the wonderful cobbled, bus-trailing, tourist trap and haven that is Cusco. In Cusco I was hopsitalised for Altitude Sickness, I had to breathe oxygen from a tank for over ten hours, it was boring. However, on my return to the hostel we were surrounded by fantastically short-lived friends (well, some of them at least). Sometimes I struggled to keep up with Rose with my altitude sickness leaving me short of breath on even the shallow hills in Cusco, but we still found time and energy to party with these lovely people in 'Gringos ... read more

Me and Rose have found ourselves in the centre of a bustling, bright and friendly city - Lima. It was an excrutiatingly long jouney to get here and the most stressful connection in Madrid where we had an hour and a half to check out and back in again plus navigate around weird glass corridors and endless escalators in the biggest airport in the world. Then we had to fly twelve and and a half hours to Lima not sitting sitting next to each other and being refused glasses of water by the airline staff and having to eat truly disgusting food. When we got off the plane we were greeted by staff wearing Swine Flu masks and we have also had Peruvian men, who give women lots of attention anyway, make swine flu related jokes ... read more