So I finally get away from my life in Stoke Newington, away from clients and agents and the fast pace of London life. Its been 18 months since I have had time off and it´s time for a different continent. Where better place than South America. And where better place to start than Peru. Home of the once mighty Incas and Lake Titicaca, the Andes mountains and the Pacific ocean. I just finished working a deliberate short contract so now it´s an open road.
I got to Heathrow on time and while there was a hairy moment in Yo Sushi where various people were reminding me that they close the gates early sometimes I still managed to get my BA flight to Madrid on time which took off at 19:40 on 10/7/09. Don´t worry peeps not a repeat of the missed flights again! 
But you always get a close feeling you could be there again at any moment.
As usual I have met some very cool people from the moment I sat down on the plane which is always the joy of travelling. Christina, a 17 year old young lady from Norway who sat next to me on the way to Madrid making her way to Equidore alone would you beleive. Taking part in some sort of youth camp. I would have been petrofied to travel all the way to South America at her age.
Then there is Frank who is with me right now. He sat next to me on the flight. Funny guy. Lives in Amsterdam but from Germany. Travelling alone doing the travelling thing. Best way I think. I have spent 12 hours cracking up with this dude.
Well as usual we did the traditional thing of getting ripped off by a taxi driver but its almost as much of a tradition as a straw hat I guess so here I am in my hostel by a beach in Lima. Frank has joined me as he had no where to put his head and Robby the Rob who is my travel buddy for the next 3 weeks is about to get woken up as he arrived yesterday.