The next chapter of suzie-and-harriet's-south-american-adventure will be narrated by me, Harriet. Suzie has handed over the writing reigns- an excellent metaphor to begin my blog-writing career- for this installment, and I apologise for it's delay. Cusco is to blame; it always seems to hurl challenge after challenge at us. The most recent being the threat that I, as a result of the purse-(and student ID therein)-being-stolen incident, might not be able to do el c...

each time i sit down to write one of these i realise that there is -far- too much to write about sufficiently. i guess i´ll start where i left off [palm sunday] and fill you in on all the adventures [some more welcome than others] that have occurred since then. not being the World's Best Christians, harry and i arrived in a little, un-touristy andean town on palm sunday with absolutely no knowledge that it was, in fact, palm sunday. it was completely by luck, th...

well, we´ve officially said "adios" to cusco, and are on the road. it was sad to leave, but the last week at school was tonnes of fun, [which is probably why i still don´t understand the indefinite past tense.] our friend tjaard´s birthday necessitated the usual dutch drinking games [and ensuing hangovers], and we had a lovely goodbye dinner with everyone from school at what is probably the most expensive restuarant in cusco - fabulous steak, cocktai...

apologies for the pequeño delay in the appearance of this blog - harry and i ran away to an internetless little village for a week. an internetless little village which has since been almost completely destroyed by the rain and subsequent floods. when we were there the main bridge, along with its surrounding homes, had already collapsed from the january rain, but since then things have just got worse. we were looking in the newspaper yesterday at photos of the l...

so...an incredibly busy week, starting our spanish classes, meeting new friends, battling dodgy stomachs [blame the pisco sours!] and getting used to the peruvian way of life. basically everything moves slowly here, but that´s just fine. i found classes really difficult at the beginning of the week, and was worried that i´d NEVER get the hang of all the silly pronunciation bits, but thankfully after a week some of it seems to be sticking [though clearly not th...