Quito & Home!!! - Week 50

28th to 29th August

We arrived back in Quito at about 6pm and checked back into Casa de Mario, very wobbly on dry land as we finally got our 'sea legs' at the end of 8 days on a boat! Our final day of the trip was spent doing some last-minute shopping and amuse ourselves in our beloved 'Mariscal' part of Quito and to Mitad del Mundo where the equator runs.

Katie being a geeky tourist at the equator monument

It's easier to balance an egg at the equator

A human shrunken head in the wierd equator museam



Geeks!

And so the end of line. It that remained was to get ourselves to the airport at silly o'clock in the morning and sit on a plane for 24hrs before arriving back in Gatwick.

It has been an amazing trip though. Fascinating, appreciation improving, memorable trip of a lifetime. Better start saving for the next one...

Books we read: Don Quixote by Cervantes

Katie looking forward to: Flushing toilet paper, maltesers, high heels, hair straighteners, baked beans, wardrobe,

James looking forward to: HP Sauce and not having to do anymore overnight bumpy bus jouneys.