Hola guys, ok ready for the next exciting installment in the Peruvian adventures of Liz and Becky (me!) Well this weeks main feature is our weekend away to Machu Picchu´, although very excited about the trip we were less enthusiastic about the numerous early wake up calls. It all began at 6.20am on Saturday morning when we were collected from our house to be taken to Machu Picchu train station, a four hour journey was made bearable by the stunning views and...

Hola... so four weeks in and we have fully merged into Peruvian society, merely blending into the crowd....yeh, i wish! As ´gringos´ (white tourists) we are constantly hassled to buy all manner of things, from material belts and dolls to massage, piercing and tattoo sessions, waxing (we´ve smelt it as we walk past the places and it smells like solder, seriously there is no way either of us is having anything waxed!), or just being asked for money,...

Hey everyone...thought it was time for another update from me (Becky!) I think we missed out the salsa dancing episode from our last blog - Hali and I flippantly said one day in a taxi with Helen that we would be up for dancing salsa at some point whilst here, the next thing i knew Helen´s friend Carlos was booked for coming to the house one evening to give us a private lesson! Liz and Annabel, perhaps wisely, said they would watch from the sidelines as we ...

Everywhere we go...we always take the weather with us..... Yes, there was a very British thunderstorm today! But Cusco is still coming out of the rainy season so hopefully it will brighten up over the next week or so. So during my last blog-writing sesh the computer froze up which is always good, so not had a chance to write about our weekends yet. And as each day goes by i seem to forget more and more because we´ve done so much. So now i will try to reca...

Hey everyone, so i thought i´d better have some input into this thing seeing as Liz has dedicated all her internet time to it so far! It´s been a fairly low key start to the week, we had Spanish lessons on Monday as usual...oh the joys of regular and irregular verbs! The practical lessons didn´t improve our mood much either, it seemed my Spanish teacher used the excuse of telling me that that verb ´soñar´means to dream to tell me the...