Suzanne Ellis Thank you. Mixing up words again. I had never heard of them until this trip.

Sean Ryan ....budgie smugglers....

Suzanne Sorry Sean. You change to right spelling later on. Alot of peoples names are spelt wrong on blog. They all need changing when I get home. Hopefully my blog from Rio will be arriving soon. Ages behind with journal after problems of last week. Will be caught up again soon. Hope things at home are going well. Missing you all.

Suzanne Hi Aunty Chris Happy New Year. Sorry to hear that both you and Steve haven't been well but I am glad that you enjoyed your holiday. Hope you are both feeling better. I had a bad start to Chile-been worst week of travelling but its all been resolved since Thursday night so the good times can start again. My passport I stupidly left at customs in airport last Friday night. Discovered I didn't have it Saturday night. So stupid think I was rushing to get out of everyone elses way. I went through all my bags and tried to ring the airport but with my poor spanish I was getting nowhere. I sent an email to airport and while I was waiting for a reply I got in touch with the british embassy. They rang up airport and I was told by them it wasn't there. I then began the process of reporting my passport lost to local police which was again not easy due to my lack of spanish. Was worrying about it all. Apparently I was giving out a calm appearance at the spanish school but I didn't feel it. First time I've cried in months was the other night. Anyway after I reported it to police I looked at my e-mails on Thursday and e-mail from airport said it was in customs. I went on metro and bus to get it from airport Thursday night. Was so relieved to get it again. I also had wrong adaptor for Chile so was struggling with charge in electronic items like laptop and mobile phone for a few days. It has been fantastic trip and everything is better again now. Difficult to say as been so many amazing places. Probably some highlights were Galapagos islands, Inca trail, Iguassu falls, lake Titicaca, Uyuni salt flats. Done some interesting adventure activities too- hang gliding in Rio, cycling down death road and sandboarding, going down mines. Went rock climbing too. I couldn't say which I've prefered India or S America. Probably my favourite country so far in S America has been Peru as there was so much to see there. Everything has been great though. Yep I am alot more confident. Last week nearly made me go back to who I was before but dread to think how I would have coped if it had happened to me earlier. Spanish is not going too good at moment. It went well in Lima but forgot quite a bit of it without the lessons. In Santiago at moment finding it hard especially the pronunciation. Problem is my brain wasn't on it last week. My mum and dad are good. Obviously they are relieved now I have my passport again. Yep know the problem with time. I am ages behind with my journal as haven't been writing in it in last week as haven't been in mood and I was already behind with it after the busy trip. Hopefully there will be an update coming again soon. Give my love to Tracey too. Love from Suzanne xxx

chris collier Hi suzanne happy new year!! cant beleive its almost the end of january already, came back from hols to steve suffering from gout, which has lasted almost 3 weeks, 3 long weeks!! i had a chest infection over the hols so ended up having a very lazy holiday which i must admit i thoroughly enjoyed. hope everythings going ok with your trip its sounds great and you sound an awful lot more confident. very brave pyranah fishing dont think i would have done it. but would love the chance to try. havent spoken to mum and dad since i got home but we had a lovely visit before christmas with carol and andy as well. where have you enjoyed the most? and how is the spanish going? tracey was home last weekend and had every intention of writing to you but as usual we ran out of time, she sends her love to you though. hope to keep in touch more often but must admit not enough hours in the day at the moment love to you and keep safe chris and steve

Sean Ryan I'm 'Shaun'??? Grrrr..... But seriously - its an interesting read as a reminder of our trip!

Carol & Andy Sounds as though you will be sleeping for 6 months when you come home luvly! What amazing experiences you are having, it does sound fab (apart from the creatures) & hope you are loving every minute XXXBIGHUGSXXX

ted Hi Suz Good to hear your having a great time. Have been struggling to get on line, computer has gone to geeks for check up so have been trying to get up to speed with ipad, pity your not hear to help. Nevermind I am now on your old laptop so we will manage to keep in touch. love Dad, Mum and Laser xxx

christine collier hi suzanne got through to you at last, wonky computer i'm afraid, been following you via e-mail from your mum & dad though, steve is so jealous of you doing peru its a lifelong ambition of his!. I've done a lot of laughing about the spanish classes, i'm sure it helps everyone relax though. Thanks for the postcard it was great to read, I've never seen a postcard with so much info on it!!!I'm sure christmas will be a strange time for you, but just remember it is only 1 day, I will be in Tenerife over the holidays but I will be thinking of you and envying you I must say.Hoping to see your mum and dad before going away but at the moment feel as though I'm meeting myself coming back!will write again before christmas so love to you and take care and keep safe love xxxx

sylvia brookes Hi Suz Hey great blog love your tales of adventure. Many thanks for the post card. It was lovely to be thought about. Your Mum has dropped of my birthday present. Thank you I will open it tomorrow on the 11th . Continue to enjoy and keep laughing. xxx

Suzanne Ellis Sorry about lack of paragraphs. I wrote it with paragraphs then computer went funny and changed it. Then put paragraphs all in again. Went to save it and my hotel internet had timed out on me.

sylvia brookes Suzanne what an Epic really enjoyed reading it. Continue to enjoy. Love Sylvia xx

Love Mum Don't worry about us & e-mails. Can catch up with reading your blog.

Jasmine Hi Suzanne! Another amazing read, and some very entertaining stories. It all sounds so interesting! Love your indian clothes from the pics on facebook :-) All my love xxx

Carol & Andy Ellis Hi Lovely, So pleased to hear you are enjoying yourself & having amazing experiencies - back & bum massage sounds great. We all missed you at the wedding, it was certainly magical, everything went perfectly, it was so lovely of you to speak to Si at the wedding, I know he certainly appreciated the conversation, you will probably have seen a lot of photo's on fb by now, they were stunning. Looking forward to seeing you later in the month, hope you enjoy your holiday, you have certainly worked hard enough for it. Lots of love Carol & Andy xx