Absolutely gutted that England have drawn a South American side beginning with P in the World Cup and it's not Peru. I don't know how or when Peru will make it to another finals but I would love to see them take us on.

Maybe England need a warm up in Lima before the summer.

I will try to get some info on the mysterious Paraguayans and let Sven know.

On my first trip to South America I saw Paraguay play Brazil in Asuncion, but I can only remember the fireworks that came out of the scoreboard before the game.

Back to more mundane matters and more winding me up today.

The 'Cusco Crisis Box' is going to have to be the 'Cusco (made in Lima) Crisis Box', when we went back to collect it, the standard of 'craftmanship' was so poor we got our money back.

It's not often I literally translate Esther but 'work of shit' is so apt I have to.

We went out to lunch at the Manu Cafe today, a nice taxi driver tried to rip me off on the way which hasn't happened in a while.

Salvador has been on good from all day and now has a new poncho to show off in.

Didn't have any internet until 2pm today so finally lost it with Telefonica, one of my nasty letters has been fired at their offices in Madrid.

I have no great hopes of a reply but it was better than punching the wall or downing a Scotch.