Happy Easter all! we miss you loads and wish we could be chomping on migros chocolate rabbits with you - even with Todd who insists on eating the bunny's head first to freak kids out...
mind you, even a bunny without a head would do me fine right now!!
we will have to contend with woven palms and flowers instead - unless we manage to discover some egg or something chocolaty (i recently read that cravings for sweet stuff is related to altitude!!! hurray, no need to look any further for excuses!!)
Having said that, i am getting a tad concerned because we managed to burst the tyre of yet another bus on another one of our tremendous trips. People say we are unlucky but i am starting to wonder if there is some positive correlation between unstable buses and altitude-related cravings? Should there be such a correlation, we are still hugely grateful to not be stuck on Machu Picchu right now - its high up there and i dont thing we would have got much extra sugar intake. Anyhow, the spice of travelling in South America took us from Lake Titicaca's breathtaking islands of the sun and moon (wow is how i would describe them briefly) to Copacabana (at the copa, copacabana, music and fashion were always her passion.... la la la OH Barry!!) from where we wanted to cross to Puno in Peru on a mini trip.
We just happened to forget that we do not do mini trips, but striking farmers blocking the road put us back on track and sent us back to La Paz then back down to Chile to get into Peru via Tacna and then back up to Arequipa (called the white city for some very unclear reason as most things are NOT white... welcome to Peru).
So we are now happy sausages as we are back in the land of relatively fast internet connections after two days on the road, but frustrated like grilled offerings because we cannot upload our photos and make you see what we rant on about - i am starting to hate the wrong version on windows - someone tell Bill to stop it.
Voila, we had better get out of this place and find somewhere compatible - and also go and have some grilled guinea pig (a speciality i am much looking forwards to trying :-)
An Inca lady with her two llamas on Isla del Sol, Lake Titicaca.
Pigs on the beach, Punta Norte, Isla del Sol.