Stuff unrelated to food, wine & spirits that I just feel like posting.
[Right click on the map and display it on a separate page to see it full size.] Let’s get to the really touristy stuff – I’m going to do one post on the things in-town, and another on the couple of things I did outside of the city. I took zillions of pictures, and at… Read More The In Town Tourist
A quintet of markets and one street fair for your reading pleasure. All the major markets in La Paz proper seem to be located around the center of town, I suppose that’s somewhat logistical – prior to the boom in El Alto, everyone from all sides of the city could simply walk or ride downhill… Read More To Market, To Market…
So, La Paz, Bolivia. I know some of you have been waiting for this. It’s one of those places that, well, none of us really know anything about. I mean, people talk about visiting Buenos Aires or Rio de Janeiro or Lima or any of a handful of other spots in South America, but who… Read More Welcome to Our Lady of Peace
Part of why I’d planned two days in Lima before moving on to La Paz was that the young man who used to work for us that I mentioned in the beginning of this series of vacation posts, whose mom has a restaurant in Lima, was going to be in town helping his mom rework… Read More The Surquillo Markets
Oh, I don’t even know where to begin this one…. Hmmm, let’s start with last day in Trujillo before heading to the mountaintop to visit Henry’s dad. We had lunch at Coquito’s, a popular seafood place in the northeast of the city: Henry and I invited out three of his sisters for lunch and we… Read More Run For/From The Hills!
I had to put my foot down about hanging around the house “visiting”. Enough is enough already, and Henry’s here for the next month, he can do more visiting after I head out early next week. So we got out and about for a portion of the day yesterday. Though, first, of course, we had… Read More The Hidden Museum
We’ll see how much there is to post about on this visit back to Trujillo, Peru. For those who’ve been with me awhile and want a refresher, or those who’ve not and want an introduction, Henry and I are visiting his family for a week, followed by a couple of days to the mountaintop village… Read More Thrice, Trujillo
I’m going to wrap up Iquitos with a short post – I don’t have a huge number of photos to share from the last day because I forgot to charge the camera battery and it ran out early on in the day, but in the end, it was a day that we spent relaxing after… Read More Last Day on the Amazon