Stuff unrelated to food, wine & spirits that I just feel like posting.
Into every tour must come a cloud or two, in addition to all the bright sunshine, and in Iquitos, with the regular rains, they do come. So one of the things we’d specified in arranging the tour was that if we were going to visit one of the indigenous villages, we weren’t interested in a… Read More The Yawn Factor
Very limited internet access the last few days, but we’re headed to Trujillo today, so things should get back to relatively normal – and since it’s just hanging out with Henry’s family, we’re likely not doing a lot of interesting travel stuff. It’ll give me time to sort through the rest of the photos and… Read More Jungle Walk
Sunday was a bit of a down day – no tours planned, our young guide needed a day off for a family birthday. And, we’d decided to head to what is probably Iquitos’ most famous restaurant, which probably isn’t a wide reaching fame, but still, it’s there. We slept in, then I did all that… Read More Fire & Ice
Let’s pick up right where we left off, our young guardian has procured a boat for us to plunge into the Itaya River, one of the two main tributaries of the Amazon at Iquitos. And oh what a stalwart craft she is. And her captain is a pretty young thing as well. Typical of the… Read More A Tale of Three Rivers; with Butterflies
“Belén District is one of thirteen districts of the Maynas Province. Belen (spanish for “Bethlehem”) exists at the edge of Iquitos, in the floodplain of the Itaya River (a tributary of the Amazon), and consists of 65,000 inhabitants, most of them poor, and many of whom live in extreme poverty, without electricity, none with clean… Read More The Belén Market
Henry and I have been wanting to spend a little time exploring some of the Amazon basin for a couple of years now and we’re finally here. We decided against one of the long boat tours, partially because of the group tour motif and partly because we both like a sort of set place to… Read More Welcome to the Amazon
Greetings from Iquitos, Peru, out in the Amazon basin, where we will have limited internet access for the next week. It may seem like all our days are dedicated to food, and it certainly plays a big part, but we do a lot of other stuff too. For our last day in Lima, however, it… Read More Food Day
Back in Lima for the first time in several years, other than passing through on our way to other parts of Peru. We’re only spending two days here – I don’t know why, neither of us ever seem to have much interest in spending more time here other than to try a restaurant or two… Read More The River that Speaks