Céline & Yannick in Peru

22 février 2009

Circumvening employment rules in Peru?

Yesterday, while discussing with a bunch of peruvian friends about the problem of ensuring an employee doesn't run away after a 3 months training period (which just happened for the company I'm helping set up), I realized the possibility probably existed...

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2 février 2009

Surfing the (rocky) wave again

A little 5.8 earthquake shaked Lima again today (and again, the epicenter was around Ica, poor guys). Surprisingly, I didn't feel it. At the time, I was out getting the keys to my new offices, but my employees were quite scared (very few of them ever...

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16 janvier 2009

The Huachiman

The "Huachiman"... how many times have I heard this expression now? No idea, but it still makes me smile every time. First, I thought it was some kind of savvy old man, but in fact it's only a localisation of the term "watch man". There are plenty of...

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2 janvier 2009

Peruvian's New Year celebrations

This year was my first New Year in Peru. Sadly I haven't been able to enjoy the opportunity so much as I was stuck home for health reasons. Anyway, I got a few elements of the things local do to celebrate... First of all, generic stuff: they go out, dance...

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20 novembre 2008

Why Peru... just doesn't make it

Again, there's been a lot of time since my latest post. A lot of things happened, again, but I'm not going to talk about all that now. Today, I am particularly fed up about Peru and its legal+administrative system and I wanted to make a note about all...

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7 octobre 2008

Arrogant police officers don't live long in Peru

This story has been told to me by a reliable (not fantasy-addict) source. I'm just relating. This is told as the manager of a large garage business witnessed last year. A police officer enters the garage which already has about 4 customers (2 being attended,...

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18 septembre 2008

Taxis in Lima

Taking a taxi in Lima, for a foreigner, has to follow a few rules... I thought laying them down here would help. Taxi drivers, when seeing a "gringo" face, charge 1.5 times the fare price in more than 75% of the cases. Make them lower that. Systematically...

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27 août 2008

Little shake makes me wonder

We had a clear "tremblor" in Lima yesterday. Julio, one of my employees, was the first to realize. I don't think it was worth reporting on the USGS website, but we could definitely all feel it, and it lasted for 5-10 seconds.

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24 juillet 2008

Pictures

A few pictures I wanted to give some explanations about and always delayed that until later... Céline's birthday cake, inside view. Baby Nolan, about 5 days from birth... Striking construction workers "assaulting" the construction site in front of my...

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9 juillet 2008

A Calzone is just one big kick-ass Empanada!

Yesterday I was looking at the menu of an Italian restaurant (at the front door) and as I was flipping pages, I saw a section called Calzones (which are a kind of pizza bent in two) and there were four of these. I love Calzones, so I read a little more...

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