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10 juillet 2007

Santiago de Chile, something about work, and Fairmail

This Friday (Friday the 13th... superstition superstition), we are going for a long weekend to Santiago de Chile. I have booked us a couple of hotels, one in Santiago, another in Valparaiso, and I have planned us an activity packed stay: skiing, horse...

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2 juin 2007

Busy week

We have been rather busy this week and it's been quite exciting. Monday was a rest day, to start off the week relaxed. Tuesday we had our last meal with Bernard (I made soup "the Andes way") and afterwards, drinks at his hotel. We had a delightful time...

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12 juin 2007

We miss internet

I realise it's been a while since we last wrote. Blame it on the internet-phone cut which we've had for a week now and which is driving Yannick crazy. The phone engineer came yesterday but left us with a phone that had a dial tone but could neither make...

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8 mai 2008

Cebichería La Mar

We're trying all the fancy restaurants before Celine goes away... So, yesterday, for lunch, Paul, Lisseth, Yannick and Celine tried the fancy restaurant cebichería La Mar, also by Astrid of Astrid and Gaston. It was more accessible food and price that...

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28 août 2007

Sunny

The sun is shining today over Miraflores. I had a glimpse at our ocean-sight and thought I would spread the sun... Although I don't know the name of the bird in English (it's called a Mésange in French), one of these little birds seem to have gone mad...

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17 mai 2007

Home sweet home

We moved in this Tuesday and have slept in the appartment 2 nights already. Yannick says there is more noise than he anticipated (we're both very sensitive to noise). The bed is comfortable and all the kitchen appliances work. The shower is nice and powerful...

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2 janvier 2009

Short live the Cuy!

On my latest trip inside Peru, I went to San Vincente de Cañete (other article to come soon, hopefully), and got invited to eat cuy (guinea pig) in a cuy farm. I took very explicit pictures of the cuy in my plate, so for the faint of heart I decided not...

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18 septembre 2007

Helicopter ride

Monday was an exciting day: I was taken for a helicopter ride! It was my first ever helicopter flight and it was very nice. During the 20-25min it lasted, we flew around the surrounding jungle covered valleys and higher plateau areas, we passed a waterfall...

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24 mai 2007

Business, business

On the business side, I have had very positive meetings since I arrived here. It seems like Dokeos (software which I am lead developer of) is known in a lot of places, but that they are all missing some kind of representatives to push them into using...

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4 mai 2007

For the tourist...

A short story of our arrival in Lima... In the plane from Brussels to Madrid and then Madrid to Brussels, we met Jefferson, a Peruvian guy (I think he's 21) who has a Belgian girlfriend (flemish). He stayed in Gent for 3 months and was going back to Peru...

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22 mai 2007

It's been 1 month

It's been a little over 1 month since we arrived in Peru. We are discovering small things everyday. For instance, after keeping the full binbags in the kitchen for days, we have discovered that we have a "rubbish-vent" to tip the rubbish bags down. As...

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8 mai 2008

Galapagos Islands: Costs and Budget

So that was what we spent during these wonderful nine days of close encounter with the endemic wildlife of this archipelago. All costs/prices quoted in US$. Photos can be found on Flickr (see album in righthand side column). I also wanted to share with...

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6 mai 2008

2007 - A calendar year

I like to keep a yearly calendar of the countries I visit and the big events of the year. Usually, this is just the one-year page of my work agenda, onto which I circle dates, annotate visits and events and trace out holidays... Well here is the calendar...

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19 avril 2008

FDN: Demobilisation

You know that article saying that Ecuador was going to suspend all large-scale mining (the ones with more than 3 concessions)? Remember how it was to take effect immediately and that the halt on both exploration and exploitation would last until a new...

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13 décembre 2007

Our Quechua teacher on the net

For those of you wondering what our old Quechua teacher looks like, he's got a digital piece of news about Quechua in Peru on the website of the newspaper La Republica: here it is (in spanish) French Pour ceux qui se demandent à quoi ressemble notre vieux...

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28 mai 2007

Fruits

We have many exotic fruits in Peru that we had never seen, tasted or even heard of before arriving. I would like to introduce you to a few.... Chirimoya The outside is dark and light green with smooth polygonal faces, it is bigger than a fist. It is a...

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19 avril 2008

Construction sites all around, Lima

Let aside the fact that we had chosen our appartment with a considerable criteria being the relative quietness of the area and that it's now completely ruined by the works around us, the current building boom in Lima is not coming to an end any time soon...

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5 novembre 2007

Somewhere special

Recently voted one of the Seven Wonders of the World, this city in ruins, whose name means Old Hill in quechua, built during more than a century between 1420 and 1540 AC, over 500 years old, one of the most important Inca ruins, from which the last Incas...

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28 août 2007

Party week-end

This week-end was a crazy week-end for us party animals. I started it off without Yannick by going out for drinks after our volleyball session on Friday. We have a new volleybal court: we play on avenida Benavides now and it's no longer Thursdays but...

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9 mai 2008

Annuling a residency in Peru - Salida Definitiva

So here it is, my work contract came to an end the 1st of May, the same day I came back from fieldwork in Ecuador. To be perfectly in order from a residency point of view, I have to unregister myself before I leave Peru definitively and as usual with...

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22 janvier 2008

Summer sunsets

It's really summer now in Lima, the air is hot and humid and although it is sometimes overcast, the majority of days are sunny. At times, the garúa (sea fog) is very present though, and it's like walking in a cloud! The good thing about summer, apart...

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19 avril 2008

Saveur de Petit Gervais à la pêche au Pérou?

En revenant à Lima après Noël, et en quête d'aventures gustatives, Céline et moi essayâmes un nouveau yaourt à boire. Quelle ne fût pas notre surprise en découvrant que celui-ci (fait à base d'Aguaymanto, un fruit tout de même assez local) à un goût exactement...

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13 décembre 2007

Christmas in Peru / C-11

Note the countdown till Christmas day has started: 11 days left! So what's Christmas like in Peru? We won't see it live, but a few searches on the internet and talking to a few peruvians can give a hindsight into what goes on at Christmas in Peru... Christmas...

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17 juillet 2007

Santiago de Chile (Part I)

Hello everyone! We've just returned from a 4-day trip to Chile: Santiago and the surroundings. We did lots of things so I will tell the stories in several posts. We left Lima at 1.45 am on Friday the 13th and we arrived in Santiago just after 6.00 am...

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24 juin 2007

Toromocho in the Andes

I've just returned from a 2-day site reconnaissance visit in Toromocho, around 4500masl (metres above sea level), where Golder Associates is doing a feasibility study for the construction of a rockfill dam. It's a huge mining site where they extract copper....

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