Kevin and Joannie on tour

We got up early to catch our first of four flights home.  We thought we had an agreement with Vicente to take us to the airport, but when he didn't turn up, we went outside the gate and a cab/camioneta immediately picked us up.  On the road up to the airport there were loads of tortoises lumbering along. At the pier to cross over the channel we saw Vicente but he said he didn't pick us up as we had not WhatsApp'd him.   The process of transferring bags to the airport is unnerving as the taxi driver puts them on the pier edge and somehow, you get them back at the airport.    The boat crossing the channel. Coming into land at Guayacil. We were in Business Class for the first three flights.  We'd tried to purchase an upgrade for the long flight between Bogota and Heathrow but were unsuccessful. At Quito we had to transfer from internal flight to international.  All had gone smoothly until we got to the gate.  Joan wa...

 A lot of the holiday has been crammed packed and if we wanted to see more of the Galapagos Islands, we would have to do long days with other people which isn't what we wanted.  We also have a long journey ahead of us so we settled for hanging around town and watching the sea lions lolling about.  They are incredibly tame and unperturbed by the tourists taking photos of them. On the sea walls and volcanic rocks in the bay, there are thousands of brightly coloured crabs. There are iguana of all sizes, some like tiny plastic dinosaurs. We saw turtles swimming.  It is interesting that some of the locals refer to "land tortoises" and when I checked the Spanish, they are both called tortuga. Frigatebird. Shark For dinner we ate at 1835 Cafe on the main street,  Joan had a Pisco Sour We spotted people stopping and taking pictures.  It was a wonderful sunset, initially golden but turning to purple-pink. Being a Friday night, there were stal...