19th October 2008 - Puerto Ayora
Our early start brought the usual pre-airport panics. Oh no, it’s nearly 7am already – where did you put the sun cream – have you packed the food for the flight – hurry up with breakfast. As usual, we needn’t have worried. Our taxi ride to Quito airport was uneventful [...]

I saw my first humming bird today.  I shuffled across the floor from bed around six this morning (still waking up early from the jetlag) and lifted the curtain in our room at La Mujica to see the world.  There, in a large flowering bush right outside our window, was a humming bird flitting with [...]