It was a Sunday so I thought there wouldn't be too much going on but I was wrong, outside it was just like any other day, the streets were full of cars, people were walking everywhere and most of the shops seemed to be open. I went on a mission to find a cash machine to get some money but I ended up walking around for I don't know, at least half an hour before I found any banks. I was so tired when I got back to the hostel, even the slightest uphill gradient is like climbing a hill here, the altitude really does take it out of you. I quite fancied watching Alice in Wonderland, as I was supposed to go and see it in Santiago but there was a black out. There were two main cinemas in La Paz and somebody else staying here wanted to go and see it too so she asked at the reception and they told her what cinema shows films in English. It was right at the other side of town but went for a walk there anyway. On the way we passed a cinema on the main road and hoped that it had it in English, unfortunately not. We walked right to the edge of the city to get to the other cinema, but there was another attraction for us to see at the end of the city, the British and American embassies were there. We had a guess as to what they would look like and what would be bigger and better. We got to the cinema, no such luck, they only show the film in English in Friday and Saturday, today was Sunday so that information was of no use to us, just a big annoyance as we had walked all the way and worked up a little excitement about it.
Never mind, we still had the embassies to look forward to in my mind I had a vision that the British embassy would be like a grand Palatial building, it was not, in fact far from, it looked like the kind of house you would see by the beach in some town or city for the rich and famous, it definitely didn't have the look of an embassy. It was first in line so we still had the American one to get to yet. It was right next door though so not far to walk. It was the most preposterous building I have ever seen, why did the American embassy have to be some massive tower? What need was there to have such a big show of American authority in Bolivia? What was their relationship to warrant this?