Peru, as it turns out, has been quite a joy. When it came to it, simple things like edible food and buses with springs ‘inside’ the seats made life seem that little bit more comfortable. And rather excitingly, we were within sniffing distance of the west coast after a thoroughly long and geographically schizophrenic haul across the middle of the continent. We'd been chilled to the bone, sweated it out on the fringes of the Amazon, been up mountains and down deep canyons...and eventually we were about to be spat out, gasping and wheezing onto the Pacific coast. In some far flung fantasy, Ant would have loved to have staggered up to a distant camera and announced, 'It's....', and then been squashed by the giant Monty Python foot. Alright, so Ant found this achievement rather more
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