It's Peru, Baby.

Everyone recommends Mate de Coca (Coca leaf tea) to help with soroche - altitude sickness. Actually, althought we are something like 11, 000...

We couldn't miss the floating reed islands of Lake Titicaca. We liked it so much we even went native!

The journey by bus cama (a 'bed bus' with reclining seats) to Arequipa from Lima takes a grueling 16 hours. It is mostly along the...

Just thought I´d stop by for a spot of corrective eye surgery whilst in Lima! Ok, Ok, I didn´t really take the decision so lightly - I have...

Selling grapes outside the post office A newpaper seller's siesta Quail's egg trolley Beer diaster Aful school

Chiclayo has absolutely exploded in the past four years. Incredibly, there’s no easily discernable sign of the global recession – everythi...

On Saturday we became godparents for the second time, of Tito’s cousin’s adorable little boy, José Alejandro IV. Whereas Keila’s baptism to...

The first time Tito ever made me breakfast at his aparto in Japan he served me: soda crackers, plump purple olives, manjarblanco caramel, b...

Happy Christmas! I am thinking about all the wonderful friends and family I have all around the world enjoying Christmas in different ways....

The baptism went very well on Saturday, with the party lasting until four in the morning! We are now Keila's godparents, which is rathe...

This is my lovely doggy Wanpi. In the four years we've been away she has been very well looked after by the family. The household incl...

It's Tito 40th birthday today. I am writing this quick post whilst some family and friends sit around the table, passing a glass of Pil...

My dear friend Cecelia and I have , admittedly , been very poor at keeping in touch . She doesn 't use email and my phone...

We're back in Peru for five weeks, after almost four years absence. Can't believe it's been so long... we left in April 2005, ...