Hello, Now I´m in Nazca with Catherine in a random v isolated hotel. I met Catherine on thursday night in Lima airport and we got a taxi to our hotel arriving in the middle of the night. My first impressions of Lima were that it is just another big city. The hotel is in one of the wealthy areas, so safe. And there was the most amazing supermarket round the corner... nicer even than waitrose! On Friday morning we got a taxi to the old centre, Plaza Major. My ta...

Hola! I´ve just landed in Peru and am still at Lima airport. Catheriné`s flight lands in about 1.5 hours so i have some time to kill. Luckily Í`ve found some internet away from the harressment of the vying taxi drivers. So maybe this time I´ll be able to catch up with my blog entirely.... mmmmm, it never seems to happen like that! Thursday 4th December: This was my last working day at Jatun Sacha. Thursday is personal projects day... my project was to clea...

Iḿ in Quito again now and have a spare 10 mins before i meet a friend for dinner so thought I´d do a quick blog (i have a dodgy keyboard so my spelling may appear even worse than usual!) I can really notice the altitude here again as Iḿ short of breath just walking down the street! Iḿ staying in a hotel in mariscal that ,y forends in San Cristobal booked for me. It has heavy security gates, hot water and ....a duvet!!!!!!!! heaven! So Iĺl go back to la...

Hello, So I´ve caught you up with what I´ve been doing up to the end of the 4 day tour (sunday 30th Nov) so now I have a week to fill you in on.. Monday 1st December As far as I´m concerned this is the earliest time Christmas decorations can go up, although they have been up in port for ages. It is very strange to see all of the plastic christmas trees up in the sunshine. There are no decorations up yet in the station, except for a countdown to Christmas ...

ello again, I feel well and truly back in the land of communication now. Although i miss everyone from the station is kind of nice to get back in touch with the outside world. So now I´m going to fill you in on what else I've been up to apart from the tours.Monday 24th - Wednesday 26th NovemberThese were the 3 days before the 4 day tour at the station. Monday and Tuesday at work were pretty normal days of machetting. On Tuesday afternoon we picked wild coffee (n...