Bumming About - quite literally

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Hi everyone, hope you´re all keeping well etc, just as you like to know what we´re up to it´d be nice to hear what you´re all doing once in a while, i.e via comments. It makes the blogs a little more interesting. Cheers

Well, since the Santa Cruz trek we have done a grand total of nothing. Except chilling out and reading a lot. Since our little spell of funkiness in Lima I haven´t been quite right, I know that´s the nature of travelling but it´s slightly demoralising having to spend most of your time within a few feet of a bathroom, wandering round the sights is just out of the question, smelling all that wonderful food when you´ve got to starve yourself for 24 hours, trying not to feed whatever nasties are the source of torment.

Although it´s great lazing around on big sofas and drinking huge carafes of tea, consuming the vast quantites of books and climbing magazines in the library at Cafe Andino, I´d love to be out doing Pisco, which is where we were meant to go almost as soon as we got back from Santa Cruz.

I´m feeling a little better today and managed a tentative bowl of spaguetti (the simplest thing thats on the menu) last night and don´t seem to be feeling the repercussions yet, which meant i could starvingly cram down some conflakes this morning. We have booked a days ice wall climbing for tomorrow on a real live glacier, get all the kit and carted out there and spend about three hours on the ice, how cool is that?!!! It´ll be tiring but hey, went on the indoor climbing wall in one of the restauraunts last night and it wasn´t too tough. I´m stronger than I look, managed to belay Martin down right from the top of the 30ft wall!!!!!!! Must be all that trekking pole use, gives the upper arms a right good work out cause some of the weight is distributed from your legs through your arms and into the poles. I love those things now.

Got a right good Chrismas list building up if anyones stuck for ideas 😊 climbing shoes, harness, a few carabiners, cams, rope, helmet, mountaineering boots, crampons... :D maybe eventually some ice axes, ice screws and a trip up the Eiger????

Posted a couple of postcards to family yesterday, no idea if they'll ever arrive but we´ve just had an email from Martin´s mum and she´s got the parcel we sent home!!!!! all intact and everything!!!! That´s a huge relief, took however many weeks but its there, maybe the Peruvian postal service isn´t so bad after all 😊 So Aless, you will get your birthday present after all and we have a copy of the photos!!!

Well I´m off to drink a bit more tea, and maybe get some crisps, I´m starving!!!
And i´ve cheered up a bit now, but seriusly guys, maybe you´ve got no thrilling news to share, just a hello is fine.

Caio for now XX

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Comments

[nell]

aww bless
lol bless ur soul, i wouldve commented before but no one else was, didnt seem the done thing - apologies. exciting news? no, nt rly....cept im pregnant......hahahahaha no not rly, just thought id speed ur heart rate up a notch, ahem. so, u guys seem to be enjoying urselves tho, despite the stomach troubles, boredom, giant bugs, wet tents, stolen belongings, irritating tour guides harrassing you for your money, and over curious cows..........yeeeaaaaaaaaaah....lol seriously tho, descriptions of scenery and people and places and all the rest of it sounds amazing, and i cant wait till u get back so i can see the pics and ne interesting articles u decide to introduce to the uk. nehoo i best go, i have severe sunburn from going fishing with james today - first day of proper sunshine in about a fortnight - so i gotta go have an ice cold bath haha much love to u and martin nell xxx

[Pippyn]

:)
ta nell :) we are and theres over 6 gig of photos to satisfy your curiosity, hopefully will get a couple loaded up today, what do you mean 'not the done thing'???!!! Break the mould!!! I´ve got funky sunburn too, half my face and neck is peeling off :S and no amount of Nivea is stopping it. ah well, just wont be so brown when we get back. Love to you too X