We´re off to Potosi tonight to see some working mines and blow some dynamite!! Only a 10 hour trip on the Peoples Bus of Bolivia. By the way, for those off you who asked - The Coca leaves are useless. Only make you look like you´ve been eating spinach and a turn off to the laaaaaadiess..
Some earlier photos off La Pàz below.
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Just in cased you happned to miss it last week, please see the below:
Everton 7-1 Sunderland
By Phil McNulty
Everton delivered a dazzling attacking exhibition to destroy Sunderland.
Yakubu's early strike and Tim Cahill's shot on the turn put Everton in charge. Steven Pienaar fired home a brilliant third before Sunderland's Dwight Yorke scored on the stroke of half-time.
Cahill slid home another composed finish after the break before Yakubu pounced from a corner to make it five.
Substitute Andrew Johnson raced through to make it six before Leon Osman's late solo effort rounded off the scoring.
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Everton's only change was the return of Arteta for Tony Hibbert - and the Spaniard produced a virtuoso display.
Yakubu put Everton ahead after 12 minutes, taking advantage of Paul McShane's slip to send a looping finish over Craig Gordon via Danny Higginbotham's unfortunate deflection.
Arteta delivered a moment of magic for Everton's second five minutes later, twisting and tormenting Ian Harte before finding Phil Neville, whose cross was met with a fine turn and finish from the master poacher Cahill.
Kenwyne Jones was giving an excellent display in adversity and he fired inches wide from 20 yards with Everton keeper Tim Howard beaten.
Everton's forward play had been a real delight, and it was in evidence again as Pienaar added a third two minutes before half-time.
The South African linked well on the left flank with Nuno Valente, who slid in a perfect return pass for Pienaar to fire high past Gordon.
But Sunderland were showing plenty of spirit despite their obvious deficiencies, and pulled a goal back on the stroke of the interval when Yorke score from 12 yards after Grant Leadbitter and Carlos Edwards had shots saved by Howard.
Sunderland boss Roy Keane made two changes at half-time, sending on Ross Wallace and Danny Collins for Yorke and Dickson Etuhu.
It gave Sunderland fresh impetus for a while, but they were undone by more awful defending as Cahill got his second and Everton's fourth after 62 minutes.
Joseph Yobo's long ball again left McShane found wanting, allowing Cahill to control and slide a composed finish past Gordon.
Sunderland then wasted a glorious opportunity to at least grab at a very slender lifeline when Michael Chopra somehow missed an open goal from six yards with Howard out of position.
Everton were producing some flamboyant football, but it was a goalmouth scramble that gave them their fifth with 17 minutes left.
Gordon had just saved well with his feet from Osman, and when Sunderland lost Arteta from the corner, Yakubu pounced from close range to score.
Yakubu and Cahill were then immediately replaced by Johnson, back after ankle surgery, and Victor Anichebe.
Johnson scored with virtually his first touch as Everton hit six, but once again it was another example of wretched Sunderland defending.
Neville's long ball caught Sunderland horribly square, and Johnson showed his pace to race clear and chip neatly over Gordon.
Sunderland were in pieces as Everton rolled forward in wave after wave of attacks, and it was no surprise when Osman added a seventh with five minutes left.
Everton had been magnificent going forward, but some of Sunderland's defending had been inexcusably bad, with Osman running almost unchallenged from the half-way line to score.
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Everton manager David Moyes:
"That was probably the best performance in my time here. Some of our football was fantastic and our passing and movement was just outstanding.
"It is how I have been hoping to get an Everton team playing and I hope we see Everton playing that was more often - hopefully it's the first of many.
"Mikel Arteta's first 45 minutes was nothing short of magical. The things he did on the ball and the opportunities he created for us were just something else."
Sunderland manager Roy Keane:
"You have to learn quickly in the Premier League and Everton took great advantage of our shortcomings.
"Everton have got three or four really outstanding players. It is a major setback to get a real beating like that but I trust the players to learn from it and I have to learn from it myself.
"It's hard to take, but we lose as a team and I picked the team and sorted the tactics so I have no problem taking responsibility for what happened."
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Everton: Howard, Neville, Yobo (Jagielka 81), Lescott, Nuno Valente, Arteta, Carsley, Osman, Pienaar, Cahill (Anichebe 74), Yakubu (Johnson 74).
Subs Not Used: Wessels, Gravesen.
Goals: Yakubu 12, Cahill 17, Pienaar 43, Cahill 62, Yakubu 73, Johnson 80, Osman 85.
Sunderland: Gordon, Whitehead, McShane, Higginbotham, Harte, Edwards, Etuhu (Wallace 46), Yorke (Collins 46), Leadbitter, Chopra (Cole 67), Jones.
Subs Not Used: Ward, O'Donovan.
Booked: McShane.
Goals: Yorke 45.
Att: 38,594
Ref: Phil Dowd (Staffordshire).
And if you are more interested in the top of the table rather than minnow news from a Kirby United Fan then read the following..
Gerrard inspires red-hot Liverpool
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Liverpool 4 Bolton 0:Liverpool maintained their unbeaten Barclays Premier League record, made it five successive wins and continued to rattle in the goals.
After demolishing Bolton, they have scored 21 goals in that five-game run to move into third place in the table, a point behind Chelsea with a game in hand.
Goals from Sami Hyypia and Fernando Torres — his 11th in 17 games — had Liverpool in command at the break and a Steven Gerrard penalty sealed what was a comfortable victory before Ryan Babel tapped in the fourth.
Bolton made four changes from the side that produced their best display of the season in beating Manchester United last weekend. Jlloyd Samuel, Gary Speed, Gavin McCann and Lubomir Michalik all returned in a team that included two former Liverpool strikers, Nicolas Anelka and El-Hadji Diouf.
Bolton started with Kevin Davies, usually a striker, on the right of midfield, but moving in to support Anelka when the Trotters broke out.
And that ploy caused Liverpool more than a few problems.
Initially, Bolton were under pressure as Harry Kewell and Yossi Benayoun ran at their defence. Ricardo Gardner had to kick away from an open goal from Peter Crouch, and then Jussi Jaaskelainen needed to be alert to scoop away a Torres close range effort after Benayoun's run.
Bolton come into their own at set-pieces, and when a Diouf corner was flicked on by Abdoulaye Meite right in front of Jose Reina, the ball was hastily cleared.
Diouf was booked on 11 minutes for a nasty tackle into Alvaro Arbeloa's ankle with the ball long gone. And it was Liverpool who went ahead from a set-piece of their own.
Gerrard's 16th minute free-kick was flicked into the bottom corner by Hyypia.
Crouch, with a header over from Gerrard's corner and then Kewell with a snap shot that flew wide threatened to increase the lead, but generally Bolton were working very hard to stop Liverpool's build-up from the back.
Anelka and Diouf were always capable of causing problems for Liverpool's defence, while Campo, Speed and Gavin McCann battled to regain possession.
Torres saw a cross-shot go wide of the far post, but at the other end Davies got away into space on the right to fire in a fierce low shot that Arbeloa hooked away from a gaping net.
And on 38 minutes, Anelka should have equalised. Reina and Jamie Carragher collided on the edge of the box, and the ball ran for the Frenchman on the right of the six-yard box.
But somehow he managed to miss an open goal from 12 yards, putting his effort into the side netting. And Bolton were to regret that clanger.
A minute from the break, Torres eased Liverpool's tensions with a stunning goal. Gerrard's 35-yard, inch-perfect through ball, sent Torres into the box to clip his 12th goal of the season over Jaaskelainen.
Gerrard surged into the box and saw a fierce drive deflected by Jaaskelainen four minutes into the second-half, and a minute later Carragher was replaced by teenager Jack Hobbs, who made his league debut. Carragher had been hurt in that first-half collision with Reina.
But on 54 minutes Gerrard did beat Jaaskelainen, this time from the spot. Peter Crouch looked to be impeded by both Meite and Michalik as he went for a Gerrard cross.
Referee Steve Bennett pointed to the spot and Gerrard drilled the penalty home.
Reina saved from an Anelka snap-shot on 59 minutes but all hope had gone for the Trotters.
Campo was booked for a foul on Benayoun on the edge of the box and Torres almost scored again when he surged in from the right, beat three men and chipped the ball over the far angle.
Stelios Giannakopoulos replaced Diouf on 65 minutes, and a minute later Babel took over from Kewell for Liverpool.
Dirk Kuyt replaced Torres on 76 minutes, and the Dutchman helped Gerrard set up Babel for the fourth with six minutes left.
Meite headed a Babel effort off the line soon after as Bolton were reduced to praying for the final whistle.
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