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SOUTH AMERICA!I’m in Quito, the capital of Ecuador. Am loving finally getting to South America and have been hanging out here for a few days. I’ve booked into a hostel with free ¨Rum and coke¨nights 3 times a week yet have managed to make it out to see a few sights. The picture is me at the Equator. Or rather at the equator (ish). A French expedition determined this to be the site and there is a massive monument and a line. Too bad someone turned up with a GPS system 15 years ago and found they were 200M out- there’s a picture of me at the ¨real¨equator in the photos section. The actual equator was intriguing - we did experiments such as balancing an egg on a nail and seeing water go down a plughole in different ways depending where you are (anticlockwise swirl in the northern hemisphere, clockwise in the Southern and straight down on the equator).Quito is 2800M high and I felt the altitude for the first 24 hrs. Am fine now and am very much looking forward to heading to the Galapagos Islands on Tuesday- expensive for the trip but they look amazing. I’m sure I’ll have lots of photos from that but will be away from email for most of the week I’m there.
Edd
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