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August 20, 2013
In Arequipa we took the night bus to Puno which is located by Titicaca lake. We took the bus at around 11:30pm, so we had time to have diner at Chicha restaurant. We were very tired by then though… specially after two days walking… we were falling asleep as we had wake up at 5am […]
August 19, 2013
At 5am the alarm went out. Time to start the ascent. My legs were heating from the previous day but we had a good night sleep with the only noise of the river. There was full moon so the headlamps were not 100% required. Many people had to go up with mules as it was […]
August 18, 2013
We did not sleep much as the hotel was located in the junction of two main streets and honking was non stop all night long. In addition we were picked at 3am… The tour consisted in breakfast in Chivay after 3 h trip. The road trip was scary and we could not sleep either, […]
August 17, 2013
We had nice breakfast and then packed one bag to go (mine) and the other (identical, as we have two ikea bags) in the hotel with Nuria’s work clothes and laptop. We book the last night and took the posh taxi to the airport. We made sure before leaving that we had the hotel […]
August 16, 2013
Why holidays are starting on day 3? Well I allowed myself up to Saturday so 3 days, to reach Lima due to the type of stand by ticket I had. Fortunately I made it on the fist attempt. Friday is Nuria’s last working day. Her colleagues were leaving at 4:30pm so that was when […]
August 15, 2013
I boarded the plane in Madrid around midnight. I had to wait all passengers to board so they could tell me which was my seat. 25F. In the middle of the middle row. The plain was packed. I thing there were only 2 extra empty seats, so I felt lucky, but like my brother said, […]
August 14, 2013
In the morning Nuria’s parents, my mum, Noa and Kai and I went to the beach as usual. Then after siesta my mum dropped me at Camp de Tarragona AVE station on her way to Barcelona. It was the first time I was taking the fast train in Spain. The trip was smooth. It runs at […]
August 13, 2013
Nuria is going to Peru for work, and the plan is that I would be joining her in Lima, leaving the kids with the grand parents in Salou and stay for a couple of weeks in Peru. This is one is the most unprepared trip we are going to do. Why? Well, I will be […]
July 19, 2013
One of the most amazing features of WordPress self hosted is the automatic updates of plugins and core with a single click. On the last update, all of a sudden when accessing the admin back end, I got an error: Fatal error: Exception thrown without a stack frame in Unknown on line 0 Well, that […]