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1 juin 2007

New toy

As Céline will write in her next article, this has been a very busy week. So busy in fact that we've probably accomplished a lot more, or prepared a lot for accomplishment, than we did the previous weeks. In the middle of all this, I have bought a new...

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8 juillet 2007

Electrical appliances

Because of having my third employee starting soon, I had to change things a bit in my office and at some point, of course, start dealing with the tons of cables that are going from all electrical appliances to the wall plug, as well as with the network...

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8 mai 2007

Visiting the surroundings

This weekend we walked around the golf of San Isidro, we were told it was quiet, posh and was the neighbourhood of occidentalised businesses. We walked on Calle San Martin and crossed the Malecon Balta, passing many volkswagen bugs on the way. These cars...

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26 juin 2008

Happy Birthday Céline!

Funnily, I received a cake for Céline on her birthday. It was from her AFP (pension company?). Here are a few pictures (this is meant to make it just as if you were the one to open it, Céline ;-)) Considering it was very heavy and looked delicious, I...

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20 juillet 2007

An Exercise Book

I realise I've written an awful lot about Chile, and I'm not even done yet! To give you all a break I wanted to put a video of the view from the top of our building but the video website is no longer my friend (otherwise it would recognise me when I'm...

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18 août 2007

Photos

Here are some photos of the appartment after the earthquake. Not very exciting I'm afraid, just some open drawers and cupboard doors and our TV on the floor. Also, for photos of the Cordon Bleu cooking class I took (4 lessons of 3 hours each) please go...

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19 août 2007

Caral, the oldest city in South America

Today, Tanya and I went to the oldest city in South America: Caral. Tanya is a canadian girl who's doing a master on a peruvian landslide in northern Peru and her scholarship being partially funded by Golders, she spends a few weeks a year working in...

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15 septembre 2007

Reporting live from the ecuadorian jungle!!

Hello there! Thought I'd say a little hell from the ecuadorian jungle.... That's right! The JUNGLE! Ok it's a mining exploration camp, and it's surprisingly well equipped. Here I am typing away on my laptop, sat on a comfortable office chair, sipping...

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10 novembre 2007

Cusco - Machu Picchu

We set off on Thursday November 1st, a national holiday here in Peru, called Fiesta de los Muertos, day of the dead. It is followed on the 2nd by Fiesta de los Vivos, day of the living, a normal working day, where the locals go have lunch and party on...

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26 novembre 2007

Movie day - Día del Ciné

Yesterday was "El Día Del Ciné" - "Movie Day" in Peru. That day, it cost only 3.50 soles to see a movie in the cinema. That's about 0.90 euros! The peruvian government organises a yearly Día del Ciné to encourage people to go to the cinema rather than...

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6 mai 2008

Que visiter dans les environs de Quito

Voici une carte des environs de Quito (Equateur) qui fût publiée dans le journal local pour le long week-end du 1er Mai. Comme tout le monde, les Quiténiens aiment prendre de petites vacances à l'occasion des jours fériés et voici quelques idées d'endroits...

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4 mai 2008

FDN: The last flight, Gualaquiza-Quito

I'm finally back in Lima, after 2 full days in Quito (spent in the luxurious Marriott hahaha) and 20 days spent in the jungle on the Fruta Del Norte project. As you know, the mining industry in Ecuador has come to a halt and there were a few articles...

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29 avril 2008

FDN: Goodbye camp!

My 3 weeks on site are coming to an end, and I am flying from Gualaquiza to Quito on a charter flight at 3.30pm today with a handful of others from the camp. Yesterday was the day the workers of the camp were told that work was coming to a stop, due to...

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8 février 2008

Belgian beers in Peru

To those searching the internet for Belgian beers in Peru, I'm afraid the answer is hard to hear: there isn't. Except maybe for the common Stella Artois, which is slightly cheaper than local beers. The thing is that, after looking for Belgian beers for...

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12 septembre 2007

Ecuador - Only one day away

Well, friends, I am going to Ecuador tomorrow for 23 days. I will stay in the Marriott in Quito (rated number one on tripadvisor!) before jetting off to Loja the next day. My domestic flight ticket will be waiting for me at the Marriott's reception. A...

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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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24 juillet 2008

Spending my days in La Molina

I'm on a large development and support project at the moment with a University in La Molina, so I spend most of my days in La Molina this week (3 days this week). Apparently, I have seen and said "hi" to a previous candidate for the Peruvian presidency...

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16 décembre 2007

Julefrokost

Hier, Yannick et Céline, Céline et Yannick, bref "nous" sommes allés au Julefrokost, déjeuner de noël typiquement danois. Il n'y a pas beaucoup de danois au Pérou, une cinquantaine grand maximum et 30 d'entre eux vivent à Lima. J'étais entrée en contact...

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16 mai 2008

APEC/ALC-UE

I don't know what the difference is between APEC and ALC-UE. Obviously, ALC-UE is the "América Latina Cumbre con la Unión Européa", but the APEC is, as far as I remember, a trade agreement between North and South America, so I don't know why the two of...

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21 novembre 2007

Jungle stay near La Merced

This week-end, our party of 5 + 2 went to the Selva Central, the jungle immediately east of Lima, on the other side of the Cordillera Blanca. Friday evening we took a premium cama-bus (1st floor seats - not as luxurious as the ground floor ones), with...

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16 octobre 2007

Chimbote, there and back

This past weekend, Christophe, Yannick and I went to Chimbote, for an IT conference where Yannick was presenting Dokeos Latinoamerica. The map comes from here. Yannick had rented a car through Budget, and we took off with a suzuki jimny, a small 4x4....

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4 mai 2008

Astrid & Gaston: Fancy dining in Lima

Friday evening, Yannick and Celine went to the restaurant with our newly married friends, Paul and Lisseth. Since Celine isn't going to be in the country for very long anymore, she wanted to try the famous restaurant Astrid & Gaston. This is meant to...

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18 août 2007

Un día de trabajo sin trabajo

Last Friday was Golder's 10th anniversay and we were all invited (attendance compulsory) to an integration event, because so many people have joined the Lima office in the last weeks/months. This was a gymkana, sort of mini tournament / olympic game sort...

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6 août 2007

An extreme weekend for Celine, but Paddington Bear is here to cheer her up

It was both a very good and very bad weekend for me. Very bad because I had a big blues crisis on Saturday and felt like everything was crap in Darkest Peru (I started reading the book of Paddington Bear again to cheer me up, a kind goodbye gift from...

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14 avril 2008

Fruta del Norte - Petit Serpent

Me voilà de retour en Equateur pour le projet Fruta Del Norte, dans la jungle du sud est (le même projet que la fois passée, en sept-oct). Il fait plus frais que la dernière fois et j'ai pris froid à Quito, résultat: pharyngite. Le médecin du site m'a...

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