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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

Changing plans

My plans of living in Peru have been slightly changed. Once again, for business reasons, I will stay here at least until April 2009, making it a 2-years long "living in Peru" experience. I don't have much to say about that decision, except that it appears...

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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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8 juin 2007

Visas

When we arrived in Peru, both Yannick and I entered the country with visas. I went to the peruvian consulate in Brussels to get a business visa (27 euros, valid 30 days, see requirements here). The advantage of my business visa is that when the peruvian...

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19 septembre 2008

My business grows fast in Peru

Just about one week after posting an article about my business growing, I have to update that idea. Yes, it does grow, but damn, it grows even much faster than I actually thought last week. I have now 6 employees and two new guys will start on Monday...

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12 juin 2008

Al fresco, Miraflores

Paul and Lisseth (two friends know through Céline's work and stayed here for a while and now live closeby) invited me to a meal at the 5th best restaurant in Peru (or is it in Lima?), "Al Fresco". It is on Av. Balta, the one that goes from the parque...

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7 juin 2008

Lima's beaches to become "swimable"

When getting my hair cut on Thursday, I saw a TV news program where Alan Garcia announced that Lima's beaches would be cleaned up, and water contaminating sources would be... dealt with. Although I couldn't find an official source confirming what was...

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16 mai 2008

Céline's off on her round-the-world trip

For those who didn't know (we kept that private for a long while), Céline's decided to go for a round-the-world trip. We talked about it a lot and finally decided that, as I didn't fancy doing it anyway, she would just go on her own. Now the tricky thing...

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20 février 2008

Hit the beach

We went to the beach with Paul and Lisseth this Saturday. We had rented a car for the occasion and went to km 100 south of Lima at Playa Asia, a modern complex of american restaurants and classy stores like clothes store Ripley and supermarket Wong. We...

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19 octobre 2007

Being a godfather !? Well... no thanks

On Wednesday, the guard of the house next to our building caught me on the street and asked me to be his son's godfather. Just like that. Quite unexpected, I must say (I only know his name from 5 minutes later). I asked him to give me until the next day,...

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6 octobre 2007

A little update

I realise it's been a while since I haven't posted. Céline is a bit upset about that (she's doing it all) and I think she's right about it. So I'll give you a little update on what's going on here in Lima while she's had a change of circumstances there...

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29 août 2007

Arequipa - Only one day away

We're leaving tomorrow before dawn for sunny Arequipa. It's meant to be the nicest city in Peru with Cuzco. Immediately after our 6.35 am arrival with LAN airlines, we have to get to our hostal La Casa De Tintin (so called because it's belgo-peruvian)...

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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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14 mai 2007

The Groom and the House Lady

I remember reading an article in a British magazine about a guy in South Africa who felt "almost obliged" to hire a house-cleaning lady because of the enormous difference in resources between engineers and... well... unemployed people. It's not like if...

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5 mai 2008

Galapagos Islands: Opening a fresh coconut

Galapagos Islands: Opening a fresh coconut Video sent by cyperu When we came back from our day trip to the volcano on Isabela Island, we came accross two construction workers who were "plucking" coconuts off a coconut tree with a metal rod. With all her...

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4 mai 2008

Galapagos Islands: Caterpillar

Galapagos Islands: Caterpillar Video sent by Pernilleskokken We started observing this bright green fat caterpillar on the edge of the path to the Darwin Centre near Peurto Ayora. Tiny ants were crawling on it and we thought it was dead. Then, with an...

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4 mai 2008

Galapagos Islands: Darwin Centre Turtle

Galapagos Islands: Turtle Video sent by Pernilleskokken This huge turtle weighing some 200kg lives in the Darwin Centre near Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz Island, with a few of its friends and has Lonesome George as a neighbour! This slow-moving animal with...

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4 mai 2008

Galapagos Islands: Dolphins

DSCF1428 Video sent by Pernilleskokken Here is an awesome video of the awesome dolphins we saw during our day-trip to Bartolomé Island. We left Santa Cruz Island at dawn and set off from the Itabaca Canal in direction of Bartolomé just as the sun was...

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19 avril 2008

Why Peruvians study only every second year

Peruvians study for a long time. However, their university programs are not longer than in any other country. They're between one and 5 years for most things, and they can take them by modules of three months most of the time. However, a lot of them (I...

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19 avril 2008

Winter's back in Lima

This morning was the chiliest night of the last 3 months and today (until about one hour ago) the skies have been covered until the middle of the afternoon, with a light but cold wind blowing from the ocean. This is winter in Lima! Now we're probably...

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2 avril 2008

Cine·Bar and Couch Surfing

Yesterday Yannick and I tried the CineBar at our local UVK cinema, at Larcomar. Tuesday is cheap movie day throughout cinemas in Peru and while a normal cinema ticket costs 8.50 soles that day, a Cinebar ticket costs 14.50 soles and includes a drink (soft...

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16 juin 2007

Quick one

Just a quick message to say that we've got internet and phone again (yippee!), that I have been on site at Pampa Melchorita, and that lots of photos have been uploaded (their titles should be self-explanatory) in the albums Celine's work, Food, and Miraflores...

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7 décembre 2007

5.4 on Richter

We were shaken by yet another earthquake yesterday evening. This was a 5.4 in the same area as the one of August 15th, i.e. Chincha, 200km south of Lima. Even though it wasn't very strong, we got out of the appartment and down stairs very quickly . I...

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1 août 2007

Peruvian spanish

André (Yannick's Dad) mentionned a while ago that he was interested in differences between the spanish spoken in Spain and the spanish spoken here, in Peru... I discover more differences every week.... Grifo means tap in Spain but petrol station in Peru...

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15 août 2007

Earthquake

Hello world. I have just come back from 3 days on site today and during our quechua lesson, about 7-8pm, we lived through our first earthquake. We were on the 11th floor of a 12th floor building, it shook long and hard and we were both very scared and...

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