After our issues with accidentally paying for three lots of flights (which we are still trying to overcome!) our trip and arrival to the Galapagos Islands was relatively straight froward. Elena´s Spanish teacher had phoned in advance from Manta to book the same apartment that Elena and Norm had stayed in a few weeks earlier and so we had written instructions from Elena about finding the place. On arrival at the airport (which is essentially a large shed) on Bal...

Hola amigos, sorry it has taken us a while to sit down and write anything on this so now we have to try to remember what seems like ages ago!! We landed in Madrid and picked up our Spanish hire car (a Skoda!)- called Juan Pedro Montoya (couldn't be Pablo due to my car at home!) and decided to head west towards Portugal and look for a campsite to stay in. Pretty much straight away we got stuck in loads of traffic for ages and it started to get late so we turned...