So I have spent the morning drinking mate de coca in a sunny courtyard in Cuzco. This post is again from Nina as Glenn is not well - probably a mixture of a cold and altitude sickness - but he is still snoring in the room.
We arrived yesterday and were picked up from the airport by this lovely woman called Lida who runs the hostal (hostal Quipu -www.quipu-cusco.com) which glenn picked as it was pretty cheap and recommended on trip advisor. Really nice sweet hostel, very simple rooms, but friendly staff. I think Lida is used to speaking to English people as she speaks in very slow simple spanish to which i mostly reply ´buena, bonita, si...´all very rudimentary but at least I feel i am speaking the language.
Lovely food last night at a place called Baco - but bit more expensive than we will be able to afford normally. We heard about this place which does 3 course lunch for 1 USD so we will try to go there today (assuming I can get glenn up).
Mate de Coca is the local tea and is used for energy - the leaves are from the coca plant same as is used in the drug but I am assured that it is perfectly normal and totally not the same...
Had a shower this morning and used my shampoo soap for the first time which worked really well. Unfortunately I also used a small travel pot of leave in conditioner - now my hair just looks greasy.. great.
Anyway, am going to go and see if i can wake glenn up now. Bye!
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hey i have been trying to leave comments but they keep getting rejected. all the other comments were super funny (think asparagus man) but now its too late to be funny :) so you have just got this boring post. Sounds like you are having a good time, but maybe glenn not so much, you should chill at the hostel until he feel s better - gets it all out of his system. The cheap food sounds awesome!take care, looking forward to hearing about the inca trail
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