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
In two days back in Lima I stayed in two different hotels (there was a reason for choosing each and trying them both out, but it’s irrelevant to my story), and three different restaurants, if you don’t count breakfast at the two hotels. I toured my way through two different markets. It’s all a bit… Read More Lima Eats x 3
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!
All over the world there’s been this recent incursion of high end Peruvian cooking – either reworkings of traditional dishes to make them more elegant and refined, or fusing them with, usually, Asian ingredients or presentations. We do some of our own with our Mediterranean fusions and we’ve been talking about doing more of that,… Read More Upper Crust Trujillo Cooking
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
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