Short cut

Dorthe with her new cut

After much procrastination and debate on the topic, Dorthe finally took the plunge, and as a result, she now has a nice new haircut. It did, however, take two hours in the hairdressers chair, and features such things as colouring stripes, and a length just below the ears. She tells me that it is the shortest she has ever had it since she was four. And what did all this cost? Well, in most western countries, it would cost the GDP of Bolivia, for example. But here, well, it came to a total of Bs 50 (US$6.25)....

We have had a great few days here in Sucre - Sucre is an absolutely beautiful city, probably the most picturesque that we have visited thus far - whitewashed colonial buildings everywhere, some more than 400 years old, set in a rather pleasant, comparatively fertile valley - after the barren, dry, cold terrain of Potosi, it has been a bit of a shock. From here, we now head on towards La Paz, where, hopefully, we will not be blockaded in...