Chocolate Pudding with Chocolate sauce and chocolate bits on top

Mr Pelican puts best foot forward
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Distance traveled 250km

It says I need to make the title enticing to my readers so I hope I've succeeded. Hello to the reading text several and welcome to the first 'proper' entry from Actuary/Dentist pot (cooking not smoking) etc. You'll find our current itinerary in the next post, please come and join us if you can (and bring sausages....and sausage cooking facilities). I'm typing this on a coach from Paracas to Nazca and am getting to know my laptop intimately. We've moved rapidly through the honeymoon period where I realised it has its own slot for memory cards (wow no wires to connect think of the effort that saves) and I'm now discovering all its annoying habits such as the random window pop-up and the magic cursor which mysteriously vanishes from the place I'm typing to some other random place in the. Did you see what I did there?

Then the potatoes just flew past our heads

Birdies in love
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Flights were long and uneventful which is kind of what you want really (apart from the long bit). There was a brief moment that might induce a slight movement in your left eyebrow as we had to dismantle the seat to find my glasses but other than that there was just the usual reading of books, snoozing of sleep and toileting of relief. Lima reminded me a lot of Guatemala City (yes I know it's silly to compare a place that people may not have been to to another place people might not have been to but it did) - there seems to be a certain chaotic aspect to these cities that grate against our need for order, and don't say I don't give you deep insight.

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We left Lima in level spirits and caught a coach; a rather nice comfy coach it has to be said where they serve you food and play bingo (can you imagine that on the 321). Nice views of the Pacific were had by all. We arrived at Paracas and found a nice hostal, ooh hang on it's bingo time again back soon. My word that was a veritable roller-coaster, even after an N column play-off, the scores being level after B and O there were still four winners so we had to do a draw. Now bearing in mind there were only about ten of us on the coach you have to wonder quite how unique the cards they were giving out were. Or maybe they just love raising your hopes only to dash them cruelly on the rocks of life. And now it's The Never-ending Story (whoh-oh-oh-wh oh-oh-oh-whoo-oh-oh) on TV, does life get any more exciting? Anyway at Paracas we took a tour out to Islas Ballestas and saw lots of boobies (snigger) and thousands of other sea-birds, muchos pongos, sea-lions and dolphins. Photos may be coming soon if the connection holds. Bye for now.

Humbolt Penguins
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Now for some learnin' courtesy of http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Paracas_culture#encyclopedia

"Paracas is the name of a desert peninsula located in the Paracas District of the Pisco Province in the Ica Region, on the south coast of Peru. It was home to the Paracas culture, an important Andean society between approximately 750 BCE and 100 CE. The Paracas culture was an important Andean society between approximately 750 BCE and 100 CE, with an extensive knowledge of irrigation and water management. Most of our information about the lives of the Paracas people comes from excavations at the large seaside Paracas necropolis first investigated by the Peruvian archaeologist Julio Tello in the 1920s. The necropolis of Wari Kayan consisted of multitudes of large subterranean burial chambers, with an average capacity of about forty mummies. It is suggested that each large chamber might have been owned by a specific family or clan, using it for many generations. Each mummy was bound with cord to hold it in place, and then wrapped in many layers of intricate, ornate, and finely woven textiles. These textiles are now known as some of the finest ever produced by Pre-Columbian Andean societies, and are the primary works of art by which Paracas is known."