So we got up and left Lima today and after scramberling to change money and get a bus ticket we headed out of Lima city south on the pacific coast to Pisco. It is a 5 hour bus journey to this sleepy town that was hit by an earthquake in 2007.

We were on the bus pulling up to the Pisco and Rob realises that his bag has been stolen. It was snatched from under his seat and as the night has drawn in the theif has taken off with his passport and $750 of travelers cheques! Not to mention his iPod touch. So between us both that is three MP3 players gone in 2 months! The passport is the most important of course and that needs serious attention as he can´t get home without it.

Its a bad start and if it was anyone else other than Rob we would be in a real bad way right now, he is handeling it amazingly. We have met a really nice American guy called Daniel from San Fran here and the jokes have taken our minds off the loss and the impact has not yet set in. I am worried about how Rob will get home at the end of the holiday as he is passportless. In most instances one would be scramberling for embassy phone numbers but there is an acute feeling that we do not want anything to spoil our trip so we are almost acting like it hasn´t happened.

Pisco seems dead really, not much going on and pretty edgy also as the guide books warn. We are going to take a trip to some nature reserves tomorrow which will be interesting which are on an island. Then we will head to Nazca to the famous Nazca lines.