Hi everyone,
this will probably be a fairly short post because I´m writing from an internet cafe since the hostel internet´s a bit iffy.
So for those of you who don´t already know, I´m now in Cusco. I left VC 3 days ago to continue the next part of this adventure. But first I´d better mention the last few days at VC.
The start of last week was pretty quite, I spent Monday and Tuesday collecting and processing my last water samples. Most of them had no eggs or anything else in them but my final sample collected on Tuesday held over 200 eggs!!
Wednesday was Christmas Eve, and for some reason that´s the day the people of Pilcopata (because it didn´t seem to be the case elsewhere) have their big Christmas meal - where they stay up and eat late to welcome in the new day. Heather and I had decided we would do the cooking. While Heather sorted out the vegetables I spent my time making Yorkshire Pudding and a Banoffee pie for desert. Now I hadn´t really made either of them before and no one here had eaten either before so it was very much hoping for the best. Luckily they both worked out brilliantly, and the whole meal was great. We celebrated with some wine and around midnight we light some fireworks and had sparklers.
On Christmas day itself we all had a lie in and only ate our brunch around midday. I spent most of the day watching bad Christmas movies and eating chocolate - as is expected on Christmas day.
Boxing day was a bit different as that was the day we left to go back to Cusco. Heather and I got all packed up and after the usual faffing about the collectivo finally left about 2 hours late - a pretty normal occurence here.
The trip itself was pretty good but for half the trip we had a very drunk bloke with us....that was until we made our usual stop at the half way point and left him behind. The whole van was pretty happy as we drove away minus our rather annoying other passenger.
Once in Cusco we got settled into the hostel then went looking for food. We decided to go back to La Bodega - the Italian resturant we I went to last time - and had an amazing meal: Spaghetti Bolognese followed by a delicious tiramasu.
On Saturday we had a pretty slow start bnut eventually built up the energy to walk up to San Blas - the artistic area of the city. We browsed through the shops and market stalls until lunchtime before heading to this nice little vegan resturant called Green Point where I had a great grilled vegetable sandwich, not that I could finish it all with the portion size but I did my best!
We didn´t do much over the afternoon because it started chucking it down but in the evening we headed over to Norton Rat´s bar for a little extra food and a couple of drinks. This ended up with us meeting up with a couple of Heather´s local friends and we spent the rest of the night out drinking and clubbing with them.
The club was a rather different experience in that when we showed up they suddenly bought on a bunch of ´dancers´. Eventually we left since I was starting to feel bad (the combination of lots of drink and high altitude is a bad idea) and I got back to the hostel around 3am, while the others stayed out the rest of the night.
Sunday, after having such a late night, started pretty slowly. I had a late breakfast and sat and talked to a group of cyclists staying in the hostel. They´re a big group who have been meeting up at various points, travelling seperately but reuniting in certain places. Around lunch time once Heather had returned and had a rest we went to San Pedro market for some great fresh juice, before she had to dash off and meet people. I headed back to the hostel and spend the afternoon actually relaxing and reading a book before heading back to Green Point for dinner with one of the other girls staying in our room.
Today has again been a bit of a slow start but now that Heather´s friends from the USA have arrived we´re going to go book our Machu Picchu tickets then go do a bit more exploring.
Not sure when I´ll next get to blog but will be back ASAP to let you know what´s been going on!
Ciao!
this will probably be a fairly short post because I´m writing from an internet cafe since the hostel internet´s a bit iffy.
So for those of you who don´t already know, I´m now in Cusco. I left VC 3 days ago to continue the next part of this adventure. But first I´d better mention the last few days at VC.
The start of last week was pretty quite, I spent Monday and Tuesday collecting and processing my last water samples. Most of them had no eggs or anything else in them but my final sample collected on Tuesday held over 200 eggs!!
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| Making Christmas dinner |
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| Proof that my banoffee pie worked! |
Boxing day was a bit different as that was the day we left to go back to Cusco. Heather and I got all packed up and after the usual faffing about the collectivo finally left about 2 hours late - a pretty normal occurence here.
The trip itself was pretty good but for half the trip we had a very drunk bloke with us....that was until we made our usual stop at the half way point and left him behind. The whole van was pretty happy as we drove away minus our rather annoying other passenger.
Once in Cusco we got settled into the hostel then went looking for food. We decided to go back to La Bodega - the Italian resturant we I went to last time - and had an amazing meal: Spaghetti Bolognese followed by a delicious tiramasu.
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| Leaving VC (Luiz, Carlos, me, Blair, Heather) |
We didn´t do much over the afternoon because it started chucking it down but in the evening we headed over to Norton Rat´s bar for a little extra food and a couple of drinks. This ended up with us meeting up with a couple of Heather´s local friends and we spent the rest of the night out drinking and clubbing with them.
The club was a rather different experience in that when we showed up they suddenly bought on a bunch of ´dancers´. Eventually we left since I was starting to feel bad (the combination of lots of drink and high altitude is a bad idea) and I got back to the hostel around 3am, while the others stayed out the rest of the night.
Sunday, after having such a late night, started pretty slowly. I had a late breakfast and sat and talked to a group of cyclists staying in the hostel. They´re a big group who have been meeting up at various points, travelling seperately but reuniting in certain places. Around lunch time once Heather had returned and had a rest we went to San Pedro market for some great fresh juice, before she had to dash off and meet people. I headed back to the hostel and spend the afternoon actually relaxing and reading a book before heading back to Green Point for dinner with one of the other girls staying in our room.
Today has again been a bit of a slow start but now that Heather´s friends from the USA have arrived we´re going to go book our Machu Picchu tickets then go do a bit more exploring.
Not sure when I´ll next get to blog but will be back ASAP to let you know what´s been going on!
Ciao!
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