Pyour Business Is Not Wanted
This is the annoying message I’ve been getting recently while trying to use our bank cards here in Peru. The bank we use, Scotiabank, actually has branches everywhere here. You may have noticed...
Author: Stephen
Your Ice Cream Bean Team
We are walking around in the colonial center of Trujillo when we see a man with a wheelbarrow causing a bit of a ruckus. Being generally interested in both wheelbarrows and ruckuses, we sidled...
The Past Intruding
So I was walking down the street here in the neighborhood we live in, Barranco, when under my feet I saw this sewer lid. Global Crossing was one of the companies that purchased...
Fumigated Chicken Foot
Christina and I went out for lunch yesterday. Lunch in Lima usually consists of finding one of the comedores that serve a ‘menu’ meal, like prix fixe meals, but costing only $2.50. At the...
Time Zones: Christina vs. Peru
Christina is a very timely sort of a person. It can be a bit unnerving to those of us who take a more casual approach to timeliness. The local NGO Christina is working with,...
So To Prove I’m Not Crazy
I’ve done a fair amount of complaining about the difficulty of figuring out what buses go where in Lima. To show our fine friends the sort of difficulties we run across navigating around Lima,...
Clean Water and Food Prep
So we put in a request for a water filter, which was approved. The filter cost 200 nuevo soles, the trick to converting (roughly) is to divide by 5 and double the answer to...
Passion South of the Equator
As you may have guessed due to my occasional raving, our new favourite drink is the Pisco Sour. Fortunately for us, there was a celebration of Pisco and Pisco Sours at a contemporary art...
Home Sweet Home
We were requested to show a bit more of the apartment, so I’ve thrown up a few more for you. We are gradually becoming acclimatized to our new home location. Its a lovely little...
