by Jonathan Evans | Mar 3, 2010 | Peru, South America
A wonderful bird is the pelican, His bill can hold more than his belican, He can take in his beak, Food enough for a week, But I’m damned if I see how the helican. Dixon Lanier Merritt After the big city bustle of Lima we jumped onto a nice big comfortable bus and...
by Jonathan Evans | Feb 25, 2010 | Food, Peru, South America
So, after a most wonderful lunch at a place called Punto Azul here in Miraflores, I have decided that I should try and eat Ceviche every day between now and the day I leave Peru. I’d heard of it before coming here but never eaten it, when I was in Cusco last...
by Jonathan Evans | Feb 24, 2010 | Peru, South America
After all this time in South America it’s easy to become a little complacent in your expectations and you take a lot things in your stride. For example yesterday I saw a man crouched next to to a very wide and busy road having a poo in broad daylight....
by Jonathan Evans | Feb 24, 2010 | Peru, South America
Talk about contrasts. Last week we’d just got off the boat from Hell and now we’re spending our days strolling along seaside clifftops past penthouse apartment blocks, watching the surfers below. This is Lima. The centre is old and attractive and most...
by Jonathan Evans | Feb 20, 2010 | Peru, South America
At 2am last Tuesday morning, the good ship Henry 3 arrived finally at the port of Pucallpa more than 100 hours after leaving Iquitos. This was not the happy moment I was expecting. It had taken nearly 4 days for me to be truly sick of the boat, the river, the food, my...
by Jonathan Evans | Feb 18, 2010 | Colombia, Peru, South America
We’ve spent nearly 3 weeks all told in the Amazon region, half in Colombia and half in Peru. I have lots of notes and photos that will one day find themselves onto the blog, but at the moment by and large I’m limited to public internet access or my iPod...
