Peter's Travel Blog

Today, we’ve been at sea, and following a last-minute change of mind yesterday, I had them painting iguanas this afternoon. At lunchtime, a cocktail party ot on the back deck saw cocktails being sold at rock-bottom prices. It doesn’t take a genius to realise that after half a dozen cocktails, folks are generally up for anything… or want to sleep....

Today, we enjoyed a second day in Guiyaquil. After much deliberation, Tracey and I decided that we’d seen enough of the city yesterday to satisfy us, and opted to have a relaxed day in port, on the Marco Polo. If anything, it was hotter today than yesterday, and extremely humid, to the point of being almost unbearably uncomfortable after only...

This morning, when we went up for breakfast, the sea was teaming with life. Dolphins everywhere; big ones, little ones, grey ones, white ones; some leaping out of the sea, others simply rolling along going about their dolphin-ey business. We’re approaching the equator again, and as we are off the coast of Northern Peru, almost Ecuador, it means we’re just...