Holidays are wonderful things

Good afternoon to one and all, we have got through Christmas and are now on holidays until the New Year, which is excellent, however I should let you know how we got on at the Xmas fair. 

Santuranticuy is the artisan fair that is held every 24th of December in the main square of Cusco. We had our stand in Portal de Panes with our nice little green tent and our white regulation plastic on the roof. 

After a very early departure from the house at 5 am we got to the square, grabbed a couple of guys on their way home from the disco to assist us across the Plaza with our wares. We got set up and the first shift started at 7am, I was on that one. We did very well in the morning selling baskets and in the afternoon we managed to sell a lot of soap with the Ruda soap and choco chapstick being very popular. 

When I was off in the afternoon I spent a while wandering around the market but didn’t see much in the way of new stuff. 

We finally closed up shop at 7pm and headed home to pack and get ready to hit our friend house in Maras. This involved running down to the ridiculously busy super market and getting in a bus for the 90 min journey, fortunately he collected us from the road as we would have then had a 40 min walk in the dark. 

We arrived about 11pm just in time for some turkey and a glass of wine before bed. The following day we got up for breakfast of turkey, bacon, eggs, paneton and hot chocolate, with our friends god child, sister and parents, then as it was such a rainy day we went for a nap until later afternoon and then turkey soup before a different version of the Wizard of Oz, I enjoyed it, an early night and a late morning before we headed back over the hill to Cusco to do a little work pre New Year, get the house clean and tidy etc. 

Probably will not be blogging again until after the New Year so we at Tika Soap and Tika Trek would love to wish you all a very happy Hogmanay and a prosperous New Year.

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