Airports and plane journeys

We have made it to South America! After a gruelling 42 hours on the road (plus 3 flights, a lot of hanging around at Heathrow, Buenos Aires and Lima airports and no bed to sleep in for the past two nights), we are now in Quito, Ecuador.

We are both shattered (especially Gary who has had a bit of food poisoning. First meal in South America... better to get it out of the way now) but really excited to be here. We are going to base ourselves here for a while while we do Spanish lessons. Quito is also located at an altitude of 2,850 metres, which means there should be plenty of outdoorsey things to do at the week ends. And of course, Salsa lessons are also on the agenda (God save us...).

Partly because of the lack of sleep, food poisoning and flying straight to this high altitude, we are taking it easy today. It should hopefully not take too long to get used to it. Today I was thinking that the weather is rather cold for a country located on the Equator (around 10-15 degrees Celsius) but then remembered how high up we are! Anyway, compared to Britain it´s really not that cold :)

Right, I don´t actually have anything of real interest to say since we´ve done nothing but board and unboard planes in the past 2 days, so I´ll just go now.

C.