Currently out of the office

A quick note to let those out there reading this thing that we are still alive, and are in Spain. The last four days in London were awesome, doing more touristy stuff and getting ready for our walk across Spain.

We are currently in Estella at the moment and are about 110km into our 800km walk (called the Camino De Santiago). A bit harder than we thought it would be, but trying to stay positive.

A massive thanks to Pirov and Dione, and Hugh and Liss for putting us up whilst we were in London, it was great to see you all and thanks for making our time in London so fantastic. Looking forward to seeing you all back in Aus!!

For now we have attend to a few blisters, and will probably not be posting anything new until around the 25th of April when we hopefully finish this brain explosion of a walk.

Ebs and Richo

Old London Town

London Eye - we saw from the ground

House of Parliment (perhaps?)

Big Ben
Blair's Place

Buckingham Palace

Harrods Department Store - Alfaieds Place

The price of apricots in Harrods - thats $75 Aus a Kilo, some people must have know idea!!!

Churchill made his war time speeches from this place. Great pub

Could be Oxford street but not too sure

Oxford Street

Funny bloke - already sold out Sept and Oct shows

Trafalgar Square - Lion's Place

Ebs lunching at lions

Kids on Lions

Tate Modern

This is a shot of what we thought was the London Bridge. Turns our we were looking at the Tower Bridge and we were STANDING on the London Bridge. London Bridge is not all that exciting.

Tate Modern which is a free modern art Museum set inside an old power station. Inside were works from Dahli, Picasso, Monet and these gigantic slides!!! very cool idea!!!

Just some images of our first few days here in London. Some of you will know these sights we all know very

Goodbye Mexico

This is the Agua cactus that Tequila comes from

Lucha Libre (wrestling) Masks

Here are just a few more of the shots we took the last couple of days we were in Mexico and hence South America.

Teotihuacan and Luche Libre (pyramids and wrestling)

More culture kids!!! We have been in Mexico City for over a week (partly due to STA travel and Qantas - massive gimps both of them!!!) and been flat out every day, there is sooooo much stuff to see here.

The pyramids are called Teotihuacan, and comprise of three big structures. These include the temple of the feathered serpants (see the pictures of the skeletons in the blog below to see the sacrifices found there), the Sun Temple and the Moon Temple. The Sun temple is the third largest pyramid in the world, and not to try and take away the magic from it, but it was reconstructed in 1910 (we think) and whats worse is they stuffed up and reconstructed it incorrectly. Instead of having the original 4 layers, the Mexican Govt got there numbers wrong and banged on extra one. Still the entire is very impressive, and the additional painting outside (the red one) are original two thousand year old painting of water gods (agian we think - having no guide makes us use our imagination occasionally).

Now for the fun stuff, wrestling, which over here is called free fighting or luche libre. It is pretty much like the American WWF, except every is dressed in Gimp masks and midget bashing is acceptable (our little fella got repeatedly body slammed, chair bashed, rolled off the stage and carried away by a man in a white coat... obviously a doctor... but for some reason failed to take the proper precautions for a suspected spinal injury??).

The activity is advertised as "this is not a sport, this is not a show, this IS pure Mexican passion", and by looking into the crowd the passion part definitely wrang true. As with every sporting related activity the kids love to dress up as their heroes, it was not unusual to expect the same phenomenon to happen over here. What was a little disconcerting was the fact that the parents didn´t seem to have a problem with their children walking around in these masks imitating one of the characters out of Pulp Fiction.

Our wrestling companions were Sharon (an Irish Chick) and Yair (an Israeli bloke) who were staying in the hostel with us. Both cool kids and Yair walked the Camino de Santiago two years ago and gave us some much needed advice on what to bring. We then met up with a Mexican girl who took us under her wing on on a night out in the city of Mexico. Good times....

Mexico City - Museums and FOOOOOOOD

Guys spinning from a pole - the spinning dance.

This is a maize tortilla, with frijoles (refried beans), cacuts, corriander, cheese and bloody hot chilli sauce. Sounds tasty, and is for the first few bites, then after that ... tastes like crap.

Whilst in Mexico City, we thought it would be rude not to go and see one or two of the many awesome world class museums that exist around the central park. The two museums that we are showing a few works from are firstly, the modern art museum. This featured the works of famous Mexican artists, of which we knew of one - the famous monobrowed Frida.

The other museum we visited was the Anthropological museum, which is hands down the best museum we have ever been to. WE were warned about it´s enormous size, but had no idea that it would take us 3 hours to view a quater of the rooms. It covered pretty much the world from day dot to current day Mexico, with what seemed like a room of every year in between. We have shown photos of the arrangement of human remains found as sacrifices in the temple of the feathered serpant - these cats loved a good sacrifice. In this particular temple they found around 150 remains, aging from children to the elderly.

The two great things about Mexico City are the "street meat" food stalls and the awesome metro system, both of which are keeping us on budget. As you can probably tell Ebs is fascinated by both the colour and the tastes of these tiny kitchens and insists on trying a bit of everything. One thing we have found, no matter what you are eating, cucumber or mangoes, they put chilli and lemon on everything.