Last day here ... and the days have been full of varied experiences. Big achievement for today was finding a post office. That was fun. Lex was trying to find the word for stamp in his Spanish phrase book, and I was juggling all these coins ... so I just pointed to the address and where the stamp should go and said ... cuatrocientos y setenta pesos .. another blank look and ashake of the head and she brought up a calculator and keyed in 470 (about $1 US). Got it. Can do so much with sign language. I´m really impressed with the people here. Sometimes they say ´No mas Inglis' - but they know more English than I do Spanish. They are so helpful.
Our day revolves around lots of walking ... sight-seeing - then a big lunch (that's an experience) .. more trekking in the afternoon ... back to the hostel late afternoon via the supermarket to pick up the vino and crackers. We are still eating out way through 3kilos of avocados which we bought for 1000 pesos. We tried really hard to tell him that we didn´t want that much ... too hard. The price was 3kg for 1000 pesos so that´s what we got. All good.
Shops are full of western styles, housing is also really western ... but some things are really different. Toilets for one thing - but will have to leave that till we come home. And power lines. Hard to believe.
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... but some things are really different. Toilets for one thing - but will have to leave that till we come home. - I do hope you're referring to the explanation, cause there could be problems otherwise!
The pictures on Flickr are great - I take every opportunity to show anyone who's interested (mostley everyone)
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