Boondock Puffins

Our final day in Cusco started off slightly stressfully with most of our morning pre-flight spent in a cafe with very questionable wifi trying to book a winter parking spot for our car back in France. This sounds simple but it turns out another joy of living in a ski town is that underground parking Read more

We are not normally tour sort of people, but there are times to accept that you need to be herded like a sheep in order to access certain places, particularly in a country when you have no access to transport and said place you want to visit is several hours away. As a result, on Read more

After a good sleep, thanks to jet-lag we woke up at 4.45am, in perfect time to go for a 5am sunrise walk. We had assumed the city would be asleep at such an early time but were proven wrong – the citizens of Cusco (not the tourists!) are early risers and it was a great Read more

Day 1: Leave from the mountains. 3 hour drive to Lyon. Get to the check-in desk and be told that we need an ESTA. Eliza had checked about this previously and the airline didn’t mention it, but it turns out that even if you don’t leave the airport in America and just transit through, you Read more