Articles populaires – Céline & Yannick in Peru

31 décembre 2008

Changes in the turist visa rules in Peru

Just a little update on the visa procedure in Peru... Starting somewhere at the end of 2008, turist visas will be granted for up to 183 days when entering the country. Considering this doesn't cost anything more than 30 days, you'd be better off asking...

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18 mars 2008

Education in Peru - Problem at teacher's level?

Last Saturday, the newspaper "El Comercio" published the results of the latest teachers' exam. This exam was opened to non-governmental teachers, to become government employed teachers. In August or September, last year, there was a massive protest of...

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11 septembre 2008

My business grows in Peru

Once again, it's been a while since I last posted something in here. I have a list written down on a little paper here of what I should write on the blog soon. The thing is I never get time to actually do it.But... for the doubtful, I have an excellent...

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29 août 2008

The "cuy" in pictures

For those who are not faint at hear and have no problem against the idea of actually eating a hamster/guinea pig, check out some photos here of what it looks like before and after the cooking: http://cilindroperuano.blogspot.com/2008/07/un-rico-cuy-al-cilindro.html...

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27 août 2008

Reaching the limits of a one-man-business

I was just thinking... I think I'm starting to reach the physical limit of what one single person can do professionally at any given time. Now I'm officially managing my business financially, commercially, administratively, technically, logistically and...

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20 août 2008

Double lastnames and crossed-bloods in Peru

I was recently chatting with one of my employees about a conversation she had had with one of our potential clients, and she mentioned that one of her uncles had a last name exactly the opposite of hers. I don't want to give real names so I'll just take...

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21 juillet 2008

Misc

There's no useful title for this post, sorry. Today I had Céline on the phone, she's currently in some town called by a name between "Waterloo", "Kangaroo" and "Wabadabadoo". I have tried to get it but I was tired so... nevermind. It must be somewhere...

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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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7 juillet 2008

Everything is just... fine

I just wanted to give you a little update (it's been a long time).Céline is in New Zealand, still, and her parents should be leaving her soon so she'll be on her own again for a few days or a few weeks, depending on whether a friend from Australia is...

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23 avril 2008

FDN: Pack up and leave before end of May

Yesterday (or the day before?) we had a couple of journalists on site, from the newspaper El Universo. Here is the fruit of their work (in spanish)... Article El Universo. The bosses of Aurelian are rather annoyed that the photo's legend says "extraction"...

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21 juin 2008

Céline gets to Auckland, New Zealand

Céline arrived in Auckland on Thursday, which is the first step away from Latin America in her round-the-world tour. She's set up a personal blog here (it's personal in the sense it is mainly a log for her, to keep a trace of what she did, but it's not...

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11 juin 2008

Policia escolar

I recently learnt (from my employees again, it's crazy the amount of simple culture that they are infusing me with) that there is something in Peru called "policia escolar", which is the closest thing that one could imagine to some kind of army/police...

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9 juin 2008

Using languages...

I might well have stunned my employees today, accidentaly... as well as myself. I was trying to call back a French guy who called me from a German company whom I do business with, but who generally contact me through an English contact. The guy left a...

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8 juin 2008

Lima... becoming clean?

I don't know what's happening suddendly, and whether it's related to the recent APEC/ALC-UE summit that happened here recently, but in one week I heard about more environmental measures in Lima than I heard in one year before that. Last Thursday, Alan...

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7 juin 2008

Lima shake - 2008-06-07

We had a little shake in Lima today, 8am locally, probably to remind me that the danger is still present (just in case I wouldn't remember last August). It got me woken up and dressed, which I estimate to be meaning stronger than 5 in magnitude. It lasted...

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26 mai 2008

Deepest, Darkest Lima

If the title of this post is a wink to Paddington the Bear from Deepest, Darkest Peru, the true story I'm about to write isn't close to be as warmhearted as the reference. Yesterday I went to a party (in a discotheque... I hate these places, but this...

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19 mai 2008

Tired of kissing toads

Funny latino expression I learned today. It seems that it is relatively widespread to use "Me canse de besar sapos" in Spanish, which translates into "I'm tired of kissing toads" and quite clearly means one is tired of trying so hard to find the fairy-tale...

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15 avril 2008

Little shakes in Ica

Since last year's earthquake, we've been *very* aware of, and awaken by the small shakes (you can't really call them earthquakes here, although you would in the old continent) felt in Lima. There's nothing much to say about them, except that it always...

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13 mai 2008

Corruption in Peru, 2008

You can read a lot of tourist guides about how corruption is still important in South America. Perceived political corruption however (which includes the following case) is very low in South America, probably because of the difference in perception. Anyway,...

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13 mars 2008

Almost losing my mobile phone... again!

Funny story... On Monday, coming back from a conference late at night, I took a taxi home. The driver started to freak me out about 5 minutes from home, by slowly falling asleep. I didn't get too worried at first, but then he seriously started to go from...

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14 mars 2008

Cancelling a working visa in Peru

This is unlikely to happen to most people, but some of you, one day, might need to cancel a working visa (Visa trabajador) when they've already gotten their passport stamped and have already entered Peru.This is the case I will be describing right now....

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15 février 2008

Planning the Galapagos, and having Guests

Part One: Planning The Galapagos. You guys, I don't think I can keep it quiet any longer.... We are planning a trip to the Galapagos! It doesn't seem like that project I went to in Ecuador is going to start before April-May and I'd been discouraged by...

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11 décembre 2007

What Celine likes / doesn't like about Peru

What I like about Peru 1. The cheap 3-course almuerzos2. The buses and taxis you never have to wait for3. The raw fish you don't get sick from4. The Parque Domodossola in Miraflores5. Seeing the paragliders fly over the Marriott6. Feeling rich in a casino...

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8 novembre 2007

Lima, Peru international airport tax & customs regulations

Probably useful information for travellers to and from Peru... Peru has an airport tax, both for international and domestic flights. It's never included in the price of your ticket and has to be paid in cash in soles or US dollars at the airport. The...

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5 novembre 2007

Our Cuzco trip in numbers

Steps of wooden ladders climbed to the top of Putucusi: 242Altitude difference from Aguas Calientes to the summit of Putucusi: 600mTime it took to climb Putucusi from Aguas Calientes: 1h15Time to go down from Putucusi to Aguas Calientes: 1h00Departure...

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