Puno - Peru everyone hates it but us

Puno, I grant you, is not the most pretty city we have seen but we had a lot of fun there. First of all we stayed in a hotel that was only half built, always fun, then we had a two quid, 4-course lunch that was really really fantastic, then Kieran finally managed to get through to his sister on the phone to congratulate her on her new baby, even if she could hardly hear me. The baby's new name is Flo (change of heart) which I think is a fantastic name. Both Mother and baby are doing well and back home from hospital, even if the bottom half of the house is a building site at the mo. Donna Says that Flo is a dream and Jacob is acting like a proud big brother.

We then went on a floating island reed tour, which is suppose to be crap but we really enjoyed it. We met some lovely people and had a bit of a laugh. The people live on these massive reed islands, with even their diet and houses made out of the reeds, we tried to eat the reeds and it gave us indigestion.


MMM rabbit food



When the tribe has a bit of an argument they cut the island in half and away they go!!! I think it is a fantastic way to solve an argument, I hate you mum ... I´m going to live on the other side of the lake!!

We went to the main island and to our delight we saw three women in a reed phone box powered by a solar panel, they were probably phoning for a curry take away... fantastic!

Phone home


We came back to the town and they were having a bit of a fiesta with a massive brass band and a lot of ladies in sparkly petticoats, very sexy if it was not for the silly hats!! We met up and went out with a few of the people from the trip, Sinead , Carl and Harvey. While we were meeting up a Spanish women wanting help with her English came up with a old tape recorder, I think she was only learning English to snare a foreigner as she grilled the Irish guy Carl about his availability, I was not sure how his girlfriend would react until she proved her ownership by kicking him... yep he´s mine!!

The national dish in Peru is Guinea pig mmm can´t wait. I had a hamster when I was young that used to hiss at me like a cat and was one evil bastard so it will soon be payback time.