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...