There’s a whole lot to catch up on isn’t there? The jungle, leav­ing South Amer­ica, and New York.

But you know, I’m feel­ing kind of lazy at the moment, so I’ll describe things in the way of a five year old. That might make for less typing:

The jungle was dead brill!!! There were big snakes and we caught piran­has except I didn’t coz I’m a veget­able and so don’t do fish­ing and we had bats and a python in the roof of the lodge. The toi­lets were dead stinky too and coz they don’t have proper plumb­ing like what we do in cit­ies and everything the showers were cold which was hor­rible in the morn­ing. I think I heard French people squeal­ing about it. And there were these two nice Eng­lish people and they were called James and Car­oline and they gave me some of their wine and I got a bit tipsy!

I don’t like mos­qui­toes. They bit me. A lot. Little bast­ids. Oh sorry I’m not sup­posed to use words like that.

I was really really sad leav­ing South Amer­ica. It’s so beau­ti­ful and nice and the people are great. I’ve got lots of new friends there and I think a little piece of my heart will always be with that con­tin­ent, and with Peru most of all. I’ll be back.

Hmmmm… the five year old’s style is lapsing. Still…

As for New York City. What a place. It’s not really the assault on the senses that I expec­ted. In fact it feels almost exactly how I expec­ted it to, only quieter, cleaner and more polite. Shock­ingly expens­ive, how­ever, but I stayed at the Chelsea Lodge in West 20^th Street which was an almost but not quite reas­on­able $99 for a room with a shared loo but your own shower and basin. But it was very clean and charm­ing, and it seems that for New York I did very well, so I shouldn’t com­plain. I did try to stay at the Second Home New York, as I stayed at Second Home Lima for my last couple of nights and thought it was bril­liant. And rel­at­ively afford­able. Oh well, maybe next time.

But it’s an inter­est­ing one about acco­mod­a­tion when trav­el­ling in a group. Essen­tially you need to settle for the low­est com­mon denom­in­ator, or it’s unfair. Either that or the wealth­ier need to sub­sid­ise the poorer, but that’s not neces­sar­ily a feas­ible option given pride and so on. And there’s also the desire to stay in areas that may not be as attract­ive to you, but it’s import­ant to cede to the group so long as every­one gets a say now and then. I thought we all worked beau­ti­fully as a group, but I’ll admit blow­ing $75 a night on a hotel room was a lux­ury I really enjoyed :o)

And it was still cheap com­pared to NY!

And then… it was home.

That’s it. The end of the trip. Done.

But don’t des­pair too much, I’m going to add a little con­tent about some of the places I went to, with proper researched stuff and everything. But without the pres­sure of time it could take a while! Watch this space.… And pho­tos will be added soon.

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