Category: Peru

This past Sunday was Palm Sunday – the Sunday before Easter. And when I went out to the main square, there were people holding and selling elaborately woven palms fronds into baskets and crosses...

Cusco has a very famous cathedral on its main square that features a painting of the Last Supper with a guinea pig being served up to share with the apostles (talk about adapting art for local...

So after 8 months, I don’t even have to think about it anymore. When I go to the bathroom at work, I always go with supplies. I grab my toilet paper and my soap...

In Spanish, when you use a complicated word you’re not sure everyone will understand, you would throw in my current favourite expression  ‘Con que se come?’ (“and what do you eat it with?”). Ie. the best...

So they say that the only things that are sure in life are death and taxes… But it seems that there are perhaps a few exceptions to the rule. The San Juan de Miraflores district...

A different municipal party was voted in this fall and so January 2 a new mayor came to power. This has meant that everyone on the municipal payroll that I worked with up until...

I’m sure all our northern readers will sympathize when I say it is very hard for us to feel Christmas-y as we move into summer here in Lima. It is 24 degrees every day...