well!! There really was an all round great vibe in the plaza, even a guy practising his juggling - we spent a good while up there just absorbing what the locals did on a sunny Saturday afternoon!!

We then went to sort out our onward journey to Tupiza, where we were going to get a tour of the far Southwest of Bolivia, and the famous Salar de Uyuni, the biggest salt flats on Earth. We’d popped in the day before and were told that there was a direct bus which went everyday, so all we needed to do was go and buy a ticket. Not quite so simple it seemed, as the bus didn’t run on Sundays, so we instead booked a ticket to nearby Potosi, where we were assured that we would be able to buy an onward ticket for an overnight bus.

The rest of the day was spent milling around, and we bought some

not quite so authentic handicrafts from one of the shops near the plaza. Although not as good as the ones in the museum they fitted our budget a lot more!! On our last night we went out for another delicious meal, washed down with a bottle of Bolivian wine. The Bolivians are never going to rival the Argentineans or Chileans for wine production, but nevertheless it was palatable enough, and rounded off our last night in Sucre nicely.

After watching the first half of Chelsea’s FA Cup game against Blackburn in our room we had to head off to the bus station to catch our bus to Potosi. The bus was comfortable enough, but it was full of locals who seemed to delight in the ear piercing music being played at badly distorting levels from the speaker right above our heads!! We ended up stuffing tissues in our ears just to try and deaden the abominable racket!! Finally we rolled into Potosi feeling a