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...
Category: Peru
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...
Alien Fruit
One day at the Cuso office a bowl was placed on the table which had an unidentified but innocuous looking fruit in it. When asked what it was, we were told it was a...
Mission Accomplished
After a long, exhaustive, and mildly traumatic search, we have found a place to spend the next six months. We’ll be living in a community district called Barranco. It’s not as famous as Miraflores...
Maíz in various forms
Coming to Peru I had been told about the wide variety of potatoes that we would find here (apparently there are around 4,000 varieties to be found in the country!). It is fun to...
Serious Miscommunication (Not Mine This Time)
We took an afternoon recently to go and visit the Lima city center with CUSO. Javier was our primary tour guide, and did a wonderful job entertaining us with his good nature and history...
Our Biggest Challenge (for now)
CUSO has been very good at making us feel welcome and preparing us for our time in Peru. However, there is one area that the volunteers are obsessing over that we have been struggling...
