6/9/09 from my flat hola, time for a wee update, after arriving finally in Arequipa and getting to the hostel, myself and Tomek had a mooch about town, I popped along to the language school to arrange my classes and accomodation for the next day, and on the way back we went into the monastery and had a tour with a guide, so glad we got the guide as she was great, really stiff at first but cracked towards the end and started making jokes, she showed us the living quarters the Dominican nuns had back in the last century, sorry, [View Full Entry]

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30th August 2009 Lima, Peru KOKOPELLI Hostel Hi all, i've still not made it to Arequipa, but it's all good! we got the flight the next day from Sao Paulo to Lima and i had the intention to get the bus straight to Arequipa.... but.... my new friend Tomek told me he was going to only stay for one night in Lima and then travel down to Arequipa today (Sunday) so i thought i may as well do the same so we could travel together. we got picked up at the airport after saying goodbye to our new amigos - if [View Full Entry]

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A very brief and tired update follows....... better notes in the future... so i am currently in a hotel room in sao paulo, brazil.... i also spent 4 hours in rio de janeiro today (albeit stuck on a plane), already 2 things that i didn't expect or plan.... i woke up on the plane from heathrow and went to the loo and heard the captain say very quickly in portuguese something and then what sounded like 'blah de blah diverted to rio de janeiro' in english.... i asked the stewardess if i had heard right and indeed i had - due [View Full Entry]

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