The Game Way of Chess

We bought a $2.50 chess set yesterday - the rules are the finest example of badly translated Chinglish I have ever seen.

In other news, picked up the spanking new camera this morning. W00t!

"Excuse me, is this your newspaper?"

a.k.a. "Thieving pricks stole my backpack"

We had to relax, didn't we? We're currently in Cuenca, in Southern Ecuador, which is a lovely city with green squares, fantastic old architecture and an uncommon lack of stray dogs roaming around. Perhaps this is why I put …

Baños - or <em>the Volcano incident</em>

After Quilotoa we rolled into the tourist haven of Baños - named after the thermal pools, not the quality of the toilets. The town sits literally at the bottom of a very active volcano - it's about 8km downhill from the 'bit where the lava comes out' to the centre …

Post new year's update highlights reel...

The dear old internet has been a rare, slow and expensive beastie since our last update, so please excuse the lack of stories. Here's a quick rundown of our recent adventures!

New year's eve on the beach

Canoa is a little town on a very big beach - it turned into a …

Mindo Lindo!

Well that was cool! We´ve just left the lush paradise of Mindo, on the other side of the mountain from the not-so-lush, not so paradisical Quito. We stumbled across a flyer in Otavalo for some environmental volunteer work there, and signed up for two weeks of we …