Ello my little (ex)littlebury lovelies.....will have to think of another descriptive adjective beginning with L beofre too long!´
am writing this whilst been cooked alive in the hottest internet cafe i´ve ever been in in my ENTIRE life! surely there is a point at which computers explode....???!
ah, the pics on your blogs are lovely! if you put rozzies to the left of T´s it looks like T & Bert are cowering in the face of a speeding-skiing-bullet (with very stylish goggles)
So, i am in Nazca in Peru at the moment. Got the night bus last night from Cusco on some crazy, twisty roads. so bad, that lynda spent the whole time vomiting all over the bus. Unfortunately, the main reason to come to nazca is to see the huge, weird, prehistoric shapes drawn in the sand. This involves a VERY bumpy flight in a VERY tiny cessna....which inevitably led to more vomiting from Lynda. have spent most of the last 12 hours carrying small bags of sick from one place to another!
aside from the sick transportation, have been having suuuuucccchhh an amazing time in south america. i can´t believe i have only 1 more week left! how did this happen??!
did the Inca trail last week which was fantastic. machu picchu has to be one of the most amazing sights ever.
second most amazing sight potentially occured on saturday during a slightly drunken night in cusco.....never seen an australian with a better demonstration of why going to the gym is a good idea ;)
what else have i been up to......have eaten a lot. i seem to be burning an immense amount of calories with all the exercise i´m doing and can´t seem to stop eating. so far i´ve eaten most of latin america and am having to move to a different continent to avoid detection. I´ve also been trekking and island hopping around lake titicaca....apart from the weird trip to the reed island that i told rozzie about, it was very cool! La Paz was really fun. was there with Lynda and two other guys we were travelling with at the time. really good night life and loads of atmosphere. it´s the highest city in the world, with some really crazy views of skyscrapers, next to shanty towns, next to craggy mountain tops. The weirdest thing was the number of shoe-shine boys around the city....there are literally hundreds of guys (wearing balaclavas to disguise their identity - apparently it´s thought of as a really lowly, shameful job) with little stools and a polish kit trying to persuade everyone to have their shoes cleaned. Most of the time i was there i was wearing either my suede hiking boots or flip flops....believe me, even feet in flip flops can be polished!!
Think my favourite thing of the last month has been the Bolivian salt flats. ended up finding 5 other people on the way to bolivia and hired a driver and jeep to take us around the south west for 4 days. it´s really like being on some crazy hallucinagenic drugs to see the landscape there.....saw red lakes with pink flamingos in them, with massive snowy volcanoes in the background.....gorgeous green and turquoise lakes that are so full of arsenic that you´d die if you tried to swim....salt flats where you can´t tell where the sky ends and the ground starts, like floating in a massive blue bubble....ah, you HAVE to all go there...it is definitely the craziest place ever.
heading to oz to meet up with Jen next weekend, so will be a complete change to be in sydney with familiar faces. i´m probably going to hook up with gerry again somewhere along the way too...think we´re going to hire a camper van and go for a bit of a road trip.
hope you´re all well......and that you haven´t dropped off halfway through this email....sorry it´s a long one!
miss u all loads!
lots and lots and lots of love,
s xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
PS. Where are you natalie woozle?
PPS. How´s Steve´s business going sianie? bet it´s busy.......
PPPS. Did some birthday parcels arrive this week? i hope you like the wrapping sally, i think you should hire me at Chanel :)
PPPPS. love, love, love, love xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
this is our favorite room! we're just off to sainsburys to buy more flour to fill the empty jar on the shelf. hopefully there will be a table by the time steph comes round for dinner. spot the T mug.
heres the lounge... with berts pride and joy on the wall (the telly). its ridiculous but i was jealous of it to start with, ha. spot the sofa bed for expected, spontaneous or emergency stay overs.
to state the obvious, this is the bedroom. and our new bed. spot the furntiture i designed as part of my university placement at john lewis.
i like our bookcase... its colourful and books are lovely. i am currently reading a design management book... shortly to start bill bryson a short history of nearly everything and freakonomics (spot them on the third shelf up).
this photo is to show off... cos we have swanky under bath lighting.
