Back from the dead

The past few days have been somewhat chaotic - you do come to appreciate the way tours take the organizational work out of travel.

Our Peru tour wrapped up two (or was it three?) days ago with a night out. Quite a few Aussies in the group who naturally insisted on drinking everyone else under the table. Good company though, unlike the Canadians (boring and pretentious).

Our Spanish is improving, particularity with numbers and store interactions. Counting to 100 is very formulaic after 20 (like Greek). Actually, this whole Espanyol thing is a bit ridiculous - many words are just so similar to either English or Greek (eg "traditional" v "tradicional", "caltses" v "calcetines").

Went to some museums today, not too much to report. Interestingly, many Spanish cathedrals
etc are built over old Inca temples - the conquistadors knocked them down and used the same materials.

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