14th - lazy day, chilling at Marani with an afternoon shop, topping up with souvenirs and Peruvian stuff - then dinner at the Fallen Angel funkiest place in Cusco. Check the photos! Siena and Derry spent a good deal of the day washing clothes in the bath and sink! However, they failed to spot that the room was cold and there was no way of drying anything! Other than the courtyard which can be a suntrap, the rest of the place is generally cold, we need to wear jum...

cusco, sun 8th & mon 9thSunday - big chill. Only left the hostal in the afternoon for food. Our local hot sandwich place from last night provided takeaway lunch. Siena read Watership Down ALL day, and the other two played really nicely all day with sticks used for walking up the trails, or with horses (plastic ones J). We read or chatted and it was the quietest day we've had so far. Really restful!.Monday was more eventful, we met at 9 at the travel agency, t...

So far the flights are proving to be very successful parts of the trip. The kids handle them fantastically, where we thought it would be really tough. Manuel, this morning's taxi driver, gets the vote of best yet - he was giving us Spanish lessons on the way to the airport. Seems he needs something else to do with his time, to avoid adding to the 5 kids he already has! The views over Peru from the plane were sensational - Finn had to be disappointed as they wo...