Hola again! Making another attempt at updating this blog, been ages since my last one. Covered a lot of ground and done quite a lot since then, but here goes... Had just begun Spanish school when I last wrote. Had three weeks in Banos studying 4 hours a day, five days a week. Was pretty full on, but kind of nice in a novel way to be back in a routine of getting up to start school each day, having classes and getting homework to finish in the ev...

Finished my second day of Spanish school in Banos, Ecuador, today and with the afternoon rains just having started outside, think now is a good time to attempt an update on what´s been happening. After my last entry, I did eventually get away trekking in the Cordillera Huayhaush (pronounced something like "why-wash") with only a couple more days delay. Ended up taking a nine day trip with three Germans: Tabea, Jorge and Jonas; our guide, Ronni, and ...

Hola! Been a while since Gemma´s last posting about our jungle trip, been to lots of places and done a heap of stuff since then, so only going to attempt a summary here.I´m now up in Huaraz, Peru, tucked beneath the snowy peaks of the Cordillera Blancas, north and inland from Lima a few hundred kms.Here minus my amigas, with Gemma having jetted back to NZ and the real world, Guinny lying on a beach further north and Jess, who hadn´t even made it to South Am...