I’m sorry New Zealand….

I was going to come and visit you on my way home from Bolivia, but instead…. I’m going to New York!!! Woohoooo!!! yes, I am very excited!! (thanks Jock…) I’ve of course never been to New York before. I’ll be there for 4 days- two days in a meeting on gender and emergencies, and then 2 days hanging out with my dear old New Yorker friend Leslie who I learned Spanish with in Spain ten years ago (and who I haven’t seen since!). So, I know it has been a long time since I’ve been to NZ, but I hope you’ll forgive me this time round. And yes, as promised to Jen, I will endeavour to sample a few cosmopolitans while there. I’m so excited!! Oh, yes and for my dear folk back home…. I am coming home, should be there on 11 April, in time for easter. Looking forward to seeing you all! PS. Bolivia continues to be great. Took the weekend off this weekend and went and saw some of the world’s largest dinosaur fossil tracks safely preserved (NOT!!) in the middle of a cement factory’s quarry) and going to a market in a small town of Tarabuco where they all wear funny helmets and funny hats- the story goes that this is one of the few places they defeated the conquistadores and when they did they took all their helmets- and to this day still wear them! Love this place!