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I wanted to do something with the pictures I took when in Peru and Bolivia, so I have prepared a book on the Peru part of the journal, based on entries in this bog but with a little more attention to the writing. This is coming out through Blurb, very soon. But I wanted to produce an electronic version as well. Through Blurb the publication of an ebook, aimed primarily at the iPad, but watchable on other devices as well, is a cheap alternative to a book. There seems to be no added charge for extra pages which is nice. It also has the advantage that it can be edited after it has been published, so that, if you decide to add something else, or notice a spelling mistake you can go back in and alter it. Obviously it would need to be downloaded again. The only downside is that the software Blurb supply is rather cranky, and hangs up from time to time. So, I have just produced an ebook,  'Pictures from Peru'. This is 95% pictorial and contains pictures from Peru, excluding Machu P...

On the morning of Monday 22nd April we caught a bus up to Puno on the shores of Lake Titicaca. We left at 8.00am and did not get there till 3.00pm - the journey seemed to go on forever. We got a taxi to our hostel and chilled  out there for a couple of hours before taking a look round Puno. Puno is a fairly scruffy town although I did notice some new designer university buildings on the outskirts. The town was thriving in Spanish times with a population of 10,000 due to its silver mine. It was very much a frontier town and very violent - so much so that the Spanish authorities executed the two brothers  Gaspar and Jose Salcedo, who owned the mine.   We walked down through the town to the lakeside which was all fairly new. Rickshaw ride Outside the Plaza de Armas and Catedral The Catedral (1657) Inside the Catedral An odd church Vendors Sign in the ladies' banos We were lucky to catch the moon over the water when we g...