Cusco

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OK, so it´s been a week since the last blog, but honestly we haven´t done that much...
Cusco is a really nice place literally built right on top of an old Incan town. A number of the buildings have the original Incan stone work for the first few feet, and the bricks they used were not uniform. There are also lots of impressive old collonial buildings, and houses built up the sides of the hills.
Unfortunaltely, Jen at some point contracted salmonella. We visited the doctor on our 2nd day here and he prescribed some drugs to fight it. When Jen was feeling worse 4 days later and we went back to the clinic they decided to keep her in and administer the antibiotics intravenously. She´s still there now, 3 days on, but she should be able to go home tomorrow. She´s feeling pretty much better except for a bit of a stomach ache.
The hospital is actually not that bad. All the needles and things come from steralised bags, her private room has a spare bed that I can sleep in, the room has cable TV, there´s a great view from the window and they´ve sorted all our insurance stuff out for us.
The owner of our Hostel´s wife and 3 year old daughter came to the hospital last night to visit Jen wich was an unexpected and lovely surprise.

We were due to walk the Inca trail tomorrow, so obviously that´s out, but we´ll still be able to take the train to Machu Picchu in a few days when Jen´s fit and well again. We´d allowed plenty of time in Cusco, and we´ve gained 3 days from not doing the trek so aside from the walk (which Jen was never that keen on) we´re not missing out on anything.

Fingers crossed that they let Jen home tomorrow!