Despite so many good intentions to write my journal daily, and update my blog regularly, the time has flown again, and it`s my last day in Peru. Now in Puno, following a week where I have said goodbye to Cuzco, my lovely host family and great new friends and moved on to explore Lake Titicaca and Puno, I´ve got a couple of hours to catch up with what`s been happening in the last couple of weeks. So, where was I...? Half way through the trek to Machu Pichu I thin...

Another week has whizzed by in a blur, and I can`t believe that I will be leaving Cuzco in a few days time. I`ve fallen in love with the city and it`s people, and will be sad to leave my host family and some great new friends. Time seems to have taken on a different tempo, and I`m hoping that the rest of my trip doesn`t pass by so quickly. The weekend was filled with visits to local archeological sites and markets, using the Boleta Touristica which allows acces...

The week has passed in a blur of Spanish classes, Salsa dancing, long lunches with my fabulous host family, mooching around the city, people watching in the Plaza De Almas and a few cervezas in the many bars of Cuzco with new found friends. The school where I am learning Spanish is a thirty minute walk from Los Rosales, the residential area of the city where I am living. The walk takes me through various `barrios`of the city, down the Avenue Sol, past the giant...

After impulsively deciding to request a career break on a dull winter morning in January, the following three months passed in a blur of planning and decision making. Where to go; around the world and end up in New Zealand in the middle of winter, across land on the Trans Siberian railway, or teaching English in China? Decisions, decisions. Eventually, for no real reason other than it would help me relearn my shockingly bad Spanish, and it was somewhere a bit dif...