It was an exciting early start for our trip to the Galapagos Islands today. 4:30am to be precise. Sadly Eddy (Hannah Edridge) had to leave behind her ripped jeans for the Ecuadorians to make use of. Edison the taxi driver picked us up at 5am and off the the airport we went. The whole Quito airport experience was quite stressful, with an unknown process of how to be able to leave to get to the Galapagos but after asking a few questions we learnt we had to pay a ...

After a long journey we finally arrived at the hostel around 1:30am where Kat was waiting to meet us :) I didn't manage much sleep, probably because I slept the majority of the plane journey, but Browny was snoring away! In the morning we walked into Quito and went to the plaza grande where there was loads of shoe shine boys. We had breakfast in a market - scrambled eggs and a bread roll with a kind of dairylea type cheese and the most sugary/milky coffee ever, I...