It was slightly surreal seeing Matt after so long, and on the other side of the world! Our first evening was spent cooking dinner, discovering that Matt´s kitchen surfaces had electrical currents running through them and that you had to wear rubber shoes in the kitchen, followed by drinking tequila at a local bar, catching up and getting to know Adriana and Naty (Matt´s flatmate). Will then insisted that it would be a good idea to stay up until the grand prix i...

The border crossing between Ecuador and Columbia passed without any problems, except silly queuing systems! and we we´re quickly transferred into a taxi and then onto a bus! The journey that followed was long, mountainous and by the end very tedious! I was still not feeling well, and felt progressively worse with every mountain road that we passed over!! We eventually arrived in Popayan, our overnight stop and went straight to bed in a very strange room which wa...

Sorry its been so long since we updated this! Following our month studying in Baños we both felt a bit sad to be leaving, particularly after realising that it is now one of the longest times we've ever stayed in a place except home! After a month desperately trying to see the volcano for more than a couple of minutes, it decided to show itself for hours as we drove away so that we could see it all the way to Cotapaxi (Ecuador´s highest volcano, and the highest...

We arrived in Baños following spending a night in nearby Ambato to break up our journey through the mountains. Our need for Spanish lessons at this point was once again made clear after the taxi driver tried to take us all the way form Ambato to Baños despite our insistence that we actually only wanted to get to the bus station in order to catch a bus there! We did convey this to him eventually and he then proceeded to chase down a bus for us and we have to try...

Our return to Guayaquil from Galapagos was followed by a really lazy weekend watching lots of films, early starts for the F1 and some clothes shopping! We did make it to the Iguana park in the centre of the city where wild Iguana's live in the park with the trees literally dripping with them- we hadn't realised that they could even climb that well! There was also loads of little turtles in the park pond! I had to visit the shoe shine man outside the park- probabl...