Got up and had a very pretentious breakfast in the hotel courtyard with a fountain in front of us. Although hostals can have no fan and no hot water, we kind of wish we hadn't decided to treat ourselves to a hotel. We went to the tourist information and found out which bus to take to the equatorial line, the middle of the world. We took two buses, an hour and a half, and it was funny because people kept jumping on to sell stuff. They would deliver this really ent...

We got up early today and went to buy a new camera. Its 8.2 megapixels and so should be amazing but just seems a bit wick compared to the old one. We didn't get it for a bad price and the guy threw in a case and a memory card free which made it slightly better. Contemplating ´losing´it and getting the insurance money if it doesn't work out. We then wandered up to the national museum. This was pretty good as there was a big section on facism and modern art. We p...

Hello All On this day we got up and said goodbye to Alex, Anna-Rosa and Petita (matthew's substitute mother but nowhere near as good as the real thing). Arrived in Quito after the 2flights and Matthew stupidly tipped the porter who didn´t carry our luggage but got us a taxi $1. The taxi driver tried to charge us $7 for a $3 taxi ride from the airport but we haggled and saved the $1 that Matthew tipped the first guy. We took down his taxi number to try and frea...

Hey everyone Haven't had internet for a while so haven't been able to update, but here it is - a summary of the galapagos. On Santa Cruz before we got the boat to Isabella we lost our camera, or it was stolen. It's hard to know. Anyway, we realised with half an hour to go to get the boat so did a mad dash around town, didn't find it, went to the police and because of the language barrier they started playing sherades with us to try and understand what happened. ...

Hello! In Santa Cruz, the main island in the Gapapagos. It´s really humid here, like being in the Palm house in botanic gardens. We arrived in the afternoon after a rather dodgy flight which included bacon muffins..how disapointing. We got a bus from the airport in Baltra to a little canal boat where they throw your bags on top of the roof while it crosses over a choppy stretch of water. We´d watched other boats and people´s bags hanging half off so were a bit...