Once again the boys are back in town as I’m reunited with Paddy, who finds me standing outside The San Francisco church with ease, as my white face sticks out amongst all the Inca heads. We’ve not much planned for the day, except to organise our death road mountain bike run tomorrow. We have a leisurely afternoon …
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La Paz
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Bolivia!
I’ve dragged my stinking, recovering carcass onto a night bus to force myself out of Cusco and into Bolivia. It’s the usual nonsense on the bus, poor sleep and a long wait in a freezing cold bus station in Puno. I’ve ordered myself a coffee and ‘Americano’ breakfast, which consisted of a luke warm drink and a …
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The girl from Otley
I kid you not, the night terror and fear I experienced between 11pm and 11am was among the worst I’ve ever endured. I was waking up screaming, sweating, shaking and convinced I was going to die. My dreams were deep, powerful, violent and truly disturbing. I was literally running out of breath in my sleep …
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Go, go, go
As you would expect, today is a total write off. I spend much of it planning my escape, avoiding the knowing nods and smiles and nursing myself back to health. Day one of operation ‘get-out-of-Cusco is a go.
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Quiz night
Shortly after my ex girlfriend finished with me I walked to the local pub quiz night with a few bob in my pocket and the will to win. I was alone, upset and frustrated, sitting on a bar stool in the dark by the exit. These quizzes were always well attended, with the student population …
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Singing your heart out
I’ve been stoatering around the hostel with sunglasses on and my hood up. The problem with being in the vicinity with so many girls is it’s difficult to look your best all the time. Especially if like me you have a face like a Badgers arse after a heavy night out. Even when I’ve not …
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Winners and losers
As utterly horrible as I feel, Paddy and myself are still getting pissed in the early afternoon watching the Champions League final. A short word on that; you didn’t deserve it, Bayern were robbed, and you’re name needs to be on there five times to be real contenders. Anyway there we were, my now ‘ex …
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More of the same
Only this time with UV face paints. As I’m writing this nearly a week behind I have no idea what happens today, but I do seem to remember Frauline Eins kissing a girl. I may have forgot to mention that. The entire day is sketchy at best, and as I’m penning this on the late …
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In the zone
Now lets not try to be too much of an arsehole about this, but we’ve all woken up with someone we don’t want to wake up next to. Well maybe you haven’t and maybe you’re a total angel, but I’m not. There is always that moment where it takes a few second to dawn on …
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Being a wild rover
We got back in very late last night and crashed out at our former digs. Today we’re changing to the Wild Rover, an Irish owned infamous party hostel in the centre of Cusco. This could be very dangerous, and indeed it turns out to be just so. And not for me. We’ve arranged to meet everyone …
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