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I've just discovered your blog under Newest blogs...
and am amazed by your writing talent. I also can sympathize with your lack of language learning talent. We are headed to Peru and Bolivia for the first two weeks of May, and are going with a tour for the first time in our lives due to not speaking Spanish. I understand knowing how to speak Spanish is almost a requirement for traveling on one's own in Central and South America. I look forward to reading your blogs, both past, present, and future.

Sucre
Hi Trace, Seeing your pictures I remember the city. We didn\'t stay long. Beautiful kolonial-style houses. A sharp line between the wealthy and the not so wealthy (remember a quarter where such luxurious houses were built I was amazed, we stayed mostly in hotels or guest houses) Not sure, but think in Sucre we took the bus and walked with a dutch guide a very old trail the pre-inca\'s followed. It was not so \"famous\" mostly the locals knew. And maybe I walked to a very old cemetary, but could have been Potosi or La Paz too....It was probably in La Paz where we took the Takesi trail. Sucre is close to Uyuni right? The salt lake. So strage, not like anything else in the world. Are you feeling better already from the hight? The tea really helps! One time I bought a packet, because I wanted to know how it feels stuffing your mouth with it and chewing all the time. Felt like I had been in the dentist chair, tongue comfortly numb! It\'s such fun to be reminded of Bolivia, by your blog. Thank you! Looking forward for the next one.

just as
Just as interesting as India. Marocco. Egypt. Yet take a picture of your india travel and compare it to Wrest Park....so different! Atmosphere. Reminds me of feeling like a fish without water while walking the hights in Ladakh. Different atmospheres and how we adapt (or not)

So interesting
Glad to see you are back to blogging Tracey as I really enjoy your writing...must get to see this place...I wonder if there are any Mary Watts tombstones there? I think there must be.

A tasting weekend
I think this calls for a tasting weekend in Amsterdam to see if we agree with you!

great story
great story. and yes, sometimes we don't know what we've got...but others we do, and are happy to get rid of.... what is good for one, isn't for another. Are the donkeys eaten now or having a big celebration?? ;) and the women?..

Rural Luxor
We were amazed at the rural villages where animals and people lived and worked together could be found so close to one of the main tourist attractions in Egypt. You have a great aptitude for finding a guide that can introduce you to the homes and lives of ordinary people - really interesting.

lovely house boat and great food and service.
if you want to find paradise on earth this is it, this is it, this is it.