sad and premature departure from my person and the fact that they were ludicrously expensive in South America I was going to have to get myself a cheap and cheerful alternative. Taking Rob’s advise we had decided that a 1GB Sandisk with SD card slot would be the best thing to suit our budget. This meant that I could buy a 2 GB camera card for it and turn it into a 3GB player for half the price - impressive thinking from dear Bobetto! Thankfully there was one of these little beauties sat in a camera shop window and was the last one in the shop. As usual you can’t try these things out due to the near impenetrable packaging that is so popular these days! Rob assured me it would be good and knowing that Sandisk are the best for photographic memory cards I thought they’d probably be pretty good at making MP3 players as well. We bought it then asked if we could open it in the shop, after the shop assistant heading off to find a sharp implement that would be hardy enough to get through the thick and

zealously sealed packaging, we managed to finally open my new player. Obviously the immediate disadvantage to my new player was the fact that I had 29 GB less of space than I had with my Ipod but I was trying not to let this bother me. All the pieces looked like they were there and it worked, so we left the shop and headed to the nearest café to check it out. It nearly killed poor Rob as he had to sit there and watch me play with my new toy. I refused to let him even touch it, remembering how Rob had been with me when he returned home all those months ago with our shiny new laptop. I was told that I couldn’t even touch the laptop until Rob had installed all necessary programmes!!! Cheek of it I though then and now it was pay back time!!! I made him sit there while I showed him at arms length the wonders of my new little toy! Hee he it was a very funny moment!!! The sound quality blew me away and I would have to say that if I’m honest, it probably sounds better than my Ipod - strange but true! I eventually