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8 avril 2008

Burnt down car

A couple of week ago, just at the end of the working day, an annoucement was heard from the office's loudspeaker: "Employees are advised not to leave the building, there is a burning car in the street by the entrance!". Well, that's not some small event!...

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4 mars 2008

March Calendar

Oops - forgot to continue posting calendars... Here is the March issue of the homemade calendar I had prepared for Christmas but haven't printed. The March issue shows photos of our trip to South America's oldest city: Caral.Other than that, there's been...

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28 février 2008

First Aid

This week, after work, I am doing a First Aid course (Primeros Auxilios - Premiers Secours). We're about 15 people doing this free Golder course, although the number of attendees has been dropping since Monday. On the first day, we learnt the Valoración...

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26 février 2008

Manucure and an article

Hello!!! Some of you might know that after diligently biting my nails very short for the past 25 years, I put a stop to it in December, just before returning to Europe for the holidays. I got the impulse from a little infection I had on the right side...

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24 février 2008

Termites

On savait déjà qu'un petit meuble de chevet était rongé de l'intérieur par ces bestioles tenaces, mais on s'est rendu compte depuis peu, que nos 2 tables de chevet, notre panier à linge en osier, la table de chevet de la chambre d'amis et sans doute d'autre...

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22 février 2008

Crazy building season in Miraflores

This is starting to annoy me just a tad... ;-) We currently have 28°C in Lima, which considering the humidity level is *very* hard to feel comfortable with. I'm standing at my desk, trying not to move, I fear I might instantly start to sweat. On top of...

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25 juillet 2007

Santiago de Chile (Part IV - The End)

After activity packed days snowboarding and horseriding, our last day was an easy one, visiting Valparaiso. After a breakfast with the cutest cups and bowls at Hostal Caracol, speaking to a french man on holiday, we went to the old town, walking through...

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7 février 2008

Finally! A good day - it had been a while....

Finally a good day! Things at work have been extra quiet since I've been back (Jan 16th) and most of my team was absent until a couple of days ago. It was quiet, too quiet, fairly boring to be honest. While I was gone, a few groups have moved area within...

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17 décembre 2007

Frites belges

Le journal télévisé de la RTBF parle du futur label sous forme de cornets des frites wallonnes. Je ne pensais pas que ça me ferait saliver à ce point. Un petit tour sur Google puis Flickr confirme que les frites belges sont célèbres, appréciées et ont...

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18 juillet 2007

Santiago de Chile (Part II)

Day 2 after a cold night, in hostal Rio Amazonas (we only had a little gas heater, and the room had very high ceilings, including in the bathroom where you could've grown mushrooms as it was so damp!). Also a short night, as the pick up for the skiing...

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6 décembre 2007

Celine & Yannick's Peruvian Spring

Since September 21st, it's la primavera, here in Peru: spring. And on December 21st, it will be summertime. The weather has gotten warmer and sunnier. No need to wear a scarf or jacket anymore. Sunglasses are de rigueur when going out for lunch. Ladies...

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2 juillet 2007

Holmi's birthday celebration & Jefferson + Co's visit

Not much to tell on this end of June/beginning of July. The month ended well, with a national holiday on the 29th of June. San Pedro was celebrated in coastal towns, as the saint of fishermen. In Callao and Chorrillos, there was a mass followed by a procession...

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12 mai 2007

First times

Friday I saw my first road accident, a very small collision between a "combi" and a taxi at a crossroads. The taxi was on the middle lane and had cut in front of the combi to turn right. They were shouting but nothing overly exciting. That same day I...

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29 octobre 2007

South coast road trip to Nazca

This week end, my Mom and Dad, Christophe, Yannick and myself, took a road trip along the south coast of Peru, to Ica, Nazca, Paracas, Pisco, many of the areas hit hardest by the August 15th earthquake. I had taken the Friday off so we set off that morning...

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21 octobre 2007

Peru - Census 2007

Today (21 October) was the 2007 Census in Peru. Basically describing it, they count every person in Peru to try and get the most precise number of people that live in the country. But under the hood, the logistical organisation to do that must be huge....

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24 mai 2007

Visite Bernard

Bernard, a university friend of Céline, arrived in Lima tonight. He's also geological engineer. He's visited me at home but Céline was still playing volleyball with the colleagues. We'll see him again soon, for sure. This is our first foreign visit in...

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16 octobre 2007

Quito and around

So after 24 days in the exploration camp in the southeast jungle of Ecuador, I came back to civilisation, to Quito, for 3 days, to get a resident worker visa for Peru. I was lucky that the paperwork went fast and smoothly and I got my visa earlier than...

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21 septembre 2007

Top notch security guard fights against wandering cows

Yesterday, we had a funny situation on site. We have security guards over everything. God knows what their exact job is, most of them are sat watching DVDs all day. But part of their job is also to keep cows off the site! Cows eat the plantlets planted...

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24 août 2007

Photos, photos photos & Ombeline

I am adding some new photos: - more photos of Caral - I know, I know, the photos aren't there yet, give me a couple of days to fix this bug - (thank you, Tanya - Tanya is a great young lady from Canada who was working in Lima for a bit of her master's...

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18 août 2007

New fruit

It had been a while since we'd posted about the weird food we find here in Peru. Today we tried some nísperos, which are small fruits between prunes and grapes. I was told to peel the yellow skin off, and eat only the juicy firm whitish flesh. It tastes...

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29 mai 2007

Ceviche @ Punto Azul

We had ceviche for lunch at a restaurant close to my office, called Punto Azul. They have blue walls, friendly waitresses, the service is quick and the food was tasty and reasonably priced (15 PEN for a mixed ceviche). Ceviche is the national dish of...

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4 juin 2007

Looking for a car

Saturday we've been busy doing some clothes shopping in the most local/active/adventurous places (Gamarra and Polvo Azules) and ended up so stressed that we both had headaches for the rest of the day. See a fly-over picture of the Gamarra-area. During...

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27 juillet 2007

Felices Fiestas Patrias

Le 28 juillet c'est la fête nationale du Pérou, on fête l'indépendance obtenue en 1821. Il y aura, comme partout oú on fête l'indépendance, un défilé militaire, et aussi une histoire de 21 coups de canons tirés à l'aube. Je ne me sens pas très concernée...

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12 juin 2007

Belgian History

For those who are not from Belgium, and those form Belgium who could benefit from brushing up on their national history skills, let me recommend this excellent book, which Yannick and I received as a gift from Aurélie (thanks Aurélie, we loved it!). It...

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19 juillet 2007

Santiago de Chile (Part III)

Aaah, what a good ski-day that was, yesterday! We were aching and tired the next day, but also ready for more adventure. So it worked well that I had organised us a horse-riding expedition in the Ritoque Dunes, on the coast near Concón. We left Santiago...

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