Piggy is back

Two more hours of Spanish school this morning and our brains are even more frazzled learning the 2 verbs to be. All a bit complicated when all I really need is to know how to order an ice cream!

We wandered to the cemetery but it was closed for siesta?! Didn't know the dead worked so hard! So we walked back and had lunch at a small cafe off the plaza. Mexican soup for me and coffee and chili beef pasta for Anna (54B). This was followed by sitting in the sun watching the shoe shiners with an ice cream (30B).

Anna wasn't feeling good so we went back to the room to chill and watch a movie.

We booked our flights to La Paz (260B) for Monday. The overnight bus was 180B and there are many reports of no working toilets / no stops and for 2 weak-bladdered travellers this doesn't sound fun. For the extra £8 it seems a no brainer to fly.

We went to the very hippy non-profit Condor Cafe for dinner (90B). I had the menu del dia which was pearl barley and veg soup, ratatouille and potatoes plus a banana muffin. I offered to share this with Anna but piggy wiggy decided to order some accessories and got a cheese empanada, papas rellenos (fried mashed potato with cheese in the middle) and a tucumana (fried pastry with veg in). It was only as each dish came out she realised they were a meal in themselves and not a little snack and we had enough food for 4 people! Still piggy did quite well in tackling her feast; and this was despite saying she was nauseous all day!

We picked up our laundry on the way home - the first time we've done anything other than handwashing in 5 weeks! It's very hard to do laundry when it takes a day and you only have one set of warm clothing to wear!!Read more