Home Safe. Resting. Will update soon

Pandemic Diary, 22 March 2020

Day 7 (Sunday): I’m so hungry so this will be a quick one. Today we spent inside our hotel room either due to the 4pm curfew or the advice that going outside was too dangerous due to desperate people doing desperate things. I can relate as I would do pretty much anything right now for

Pandemic Diary: 21 March 2020

Day 6 (Saturday): At 9:30pm last night we received a text in our WhatsApp group that planes would be leaving the island the next morning. The instructions were to wait to get email confirmation that we had a seat on the flight. We waited and waited and nothing. We received no email and went to

Pandemic Diary: 20 March 2020

Day 5 (Friday): The hotel (Emanuel at The Point) deserves a mention as the manager Nico could not be more helpful. He completely understands that we need to pay day by day and may suddenly disappear if a flight becomes available. He has allowed us use of the kitchens between certain hours so we can

Pandemic Diary: 19 March 2020

Day 4 (Thursday): Today was the day we were meant to leave. Instead we woke up to the news that the major of Guayaquil had lost the plot and last night instructed the police to storm the airport and block the runway to stop the KLM plane from landing. Her speech online said something to

Pandemic Diary- San Cristobal: 16-18 March 2020

Day 1 (Monday): We arrived on the island to news of uncertainty. Something was happening but no one knew what. We tried to book on a dive excursion and they told us to check back later. We checked into our AirBnB room behind a restaurant and in the owners home. The room was small and

Interlude: Borders Closed

This is a hard blog to write. We got just about 1/4 into our trip but unfortunately after a call to the British Embassy we have made the decision to return home to the UK until the travel bans are lifted. We saw it happening as the virus spread and country after country announced travel

The Galapagos Islands, Santa Cruz: 11-16 Mar 2020

The Travel:1 hour taxi to Quito airport, 1 plane journey + additional Galapagos checks + additional Corona virus checks, a bus, a ferry, another bus later and we arrived at our temporary hotel until our double booked hotel made our room available. The Place:The town of Puerto Ayora was larger than I had anticipated. It’s

The Worst Week of Travel: 03-11 Mar 2020

Salento–> Papoyan–> Impailes (impressive church)–> Quito, Ecuador. Taking 4 days. Long travel days in small buses (we should have flown in hindsight) with not a lot to see on our way out of Colombia. We entered Ecuador with the knowledge that the Corona Virus had started to spread within the country. We will now flag

Salento 29 Feb- 03 Mar 2020

Travel:The 7 hour journey was split between an open air chilly chicken bus and an air conditioned coach. A long journey but the time passed quickly as we watched the beautiful Colombian countriside slide by with dramatic mountains and valleys. Lets take a moment here to talk about the experiences on a Colombian bus journey.