So 60 hours of Spanish lessons, 10 hours spent attempting to be a surfista,4 hours salsa dancing, 1 Isla de la Plata trip, BBQ's, beach parties and way too many cocktails on cocktail ally to remember later…. And I'm about to set sail on my further meanderings around South America. Montanita has been amazing…maybe not in terms of productivity….after many hours spent studying Espanola I can still only(barely) speak in present tense and still resort to my (n...

Day 3 - So I heard that Beverly and Peter were planning to go to the Teleferiqo as was i the next day so I arranged to catch a lift there, bearing in mind i thought the cable car ride was it. I was informed there was a trek up to the volcano so I thought..why not! Little did I know!...So the base station is at 3050m. On the way up an airplane passed over Quito, it was amazing to see we were on a level with it and going up! Onto the trek... "Oh that looks ok&...

First stop on my South American adventure...Quito. With mountain peaks and volcanos to climb to the west, old town and cobbled plazas lined with churches and monasteris to be descovered to the south. And the hussle and bustle of the new town to be emmersed in for the next four/five days i'm here. Mt first day was spent descovering/getting lost in the narrow streets of the old town, which were not built for the crazy amount of traffic that flows through them. Hig...