A few more weeks in Las Tolas and I have to be the most relaxed I´ve ever been in my life. The school is closed and I spend my days helping Madge around the house, playing an addictive game called Damas with Magde and the kids. I also go horse riding on my own for hours with the most lazy horse you could imagine, Camilla, who likes to stop regularly for food and sugar breaks. That night I had a very very peculiar dream that I was travelling to Mexico in the back of a truck and trying to smuggle some [View Full Entry]

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I arrived in Las Tolas at 8, the bus took three hours from Quito and it was a rough ride my back killed, most of the way was along bumpy gravel and roads full of pot holes. When the bus arrived Magdalena was there to meet me. We went into the house and I had to use the toilet desperately, the bathroom is outside with no running water and the bathing facility is a bucket, water is collect from a well outside which is filled with rainwater. The was also a collection of wildlife living in the bathroom including a giant [View Full Entry]

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After missing my flight and months of putting off the trip I was releived to finally get here. Have a look at the ticket and see if you could have made the same mistake, I thought the flight duration was the departure time. A simple mistake anyone could have made? I really did feel like a right Burke, it cost me 50 to get the flight changed to the next day, I got off lightly considering the flight was 500, it was like a 10% idiot tax. The flight was fine and I didnt take sleeping tablets as planned, I watched [View Full Entry]

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