Have always been fascinated by the Incas ever since I was in Royal Hunt of the Sun when I was at school. I was an ordinary Inca who danced in a group and was then butchered in slow motion by Pizarro’s Spanish Soldiers. My acting career never progressed beyond being pantomime dames and the back end of a horse! if I find the picture of a young Bill semi naked as an Inca I will try and put it on the blog at some point! It will come x rated!

Going back to the Royal Hunt of the Sun it certainly made an impact on developing my political outlook in my formative years. So I was really excited when we were able to visit many Inca sites when we were in Peru. The Incas believed that many stones were people (not all stones) these were both stones used in buildings and mountains. They managed to blend the built and the natural environment so it looked aesthetically pleasing on the eye. They fitted their stones together without using mortar. You can see jigsaw style of fitting the stones together in our pictures below. Their building did come at great human cost.

The pictures are all from the site of Sasquayaman and Pisac. Will write about the Inca Trail and Machu Picchu next week (with pictures)

We had a special in the flesh Book Club last night in a garden that was a thousand times better than Zoom! You don’t realise how much we have all missed over the last fourteen months till you sample it again! Will talk about the book next week.