Oh wow, I am fully aware of the extent to which I have been slacking for the last few weeks. Well, I have and I haven’t, I can explain.

In the last few weeks we left Mancora to move in to Ecuador (which we loved, there is a lot to tell about our time there) and then we moved in to Colombia where we spent two days before getting our flight to London. Colombia was very eventful! I also need to pass on the details of border crossings, bureaucracy, a bit of bad luck and an incredible hostel in Bogota with equally as incredible owners. But, all in good time.

I guess I could give quite a few excuses for not being up to date and some of them include; the internet not being too great, there wasn’t enough time to go exploring and be on the internet so I chose the former and then lastly, getting back to London for some serious R&R at my parent’s house with weather that we could not have even imagined that we would be blessed with, selling the majority of my belongings on ebay (due to a mishap in Madrid airport that left us with a lot less cash). And this little one:

who is the best company ever and has formed some sort of bromance with Rulo.

And now we’re currently in Belfast, Ireland where my Dad is from so we’ve been seeing family and exploring up to Giant’s Causeway and the Bushmills Distillery (the oldest whisky distillery in the world) and today we shall head down south and over to Wales tomorrow.

So here is a bit of what is to come:

• Driving up to the border crossing in our vehicle to Ecuador with a hassle free cross
• The amazing motorways all over Ecuador/ environmental awareness all over the country which we were very impressed with
• Humpback whales and blue footed boobies in Puerto Lopez
• Mompiche, a surfer town which sounded amazing but turned out to have a bit of a weird story
• Altitude sickness and a great hostel in Quito
• Mindo, our favourite place in our entire trip. Sorry Mancora, but it really was amazing
• Our crossing into Colombia featuring pretty bad road standards (especially in comparison to Ecuador)
• Momentous times in Colombia featuring breaking down 3000 metres up and being shafted by a 15 year old mechanic
• A bit of Bogota
• London, the sunniest place ever and that is not at all an exaggeration. Ok maybe a bit.
• Ireland

I haven’t mentioned previously but I will also start to put up info on a trip we were lucky enough to do last year which involved buses, planes and boats from Chile up to and across Bolivia, across and down through Brazil (including the Amazon river and rainforest) and up through Argentina back to Chile. Now that was a trip! Amazing.

Have a good day everyone and I will be back soon!