About living in Peru, travel, food and my photos
People sometimes ask me what on earth I am doing living in Peru! I just saw this video from the Peru Tourist Board (www.visitperu.com), which gives some idea of the fantastic diversity of this wonderful country. Hope you enjoy it! I am off on holiday next weekend to the beaches of the North courtesy of Groupon, so quite looking forward to that. Will do my best to add some pictures on my return!
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The Peruvian health drink. I absolutely love Chicha Morada. Supposedly it has great health benefits too, as studies have shown that purple corn helps regulate blood pressure and prevent colon cancer, probably because Purple corn contains one of the most active antioxidant substances in the vegetable world! Before moving to Peru I was addicted to diet coke, now I am here I probably drink 2 litres of this every day. Much healthier… Fairly simple [...]
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This is a copy of a recipe I included on my Donde Peru website. I have included a copy here because I think it is one of my favorite recipes and should be shown on my personal site too! Ceviche is without a doubt one of my favorite things about Peru. Remarkably easy to make it is important that you use the freshest fish possible. Typically Ceviche is made with Tilavia and sometimes Mariscos. Translated [...]
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One of my biggest upsets about living in Peru until recently was the inability to find fresh milk. All the supermarkets and all the corner shops seem only to sell UHT milk in cardboard boxes that lasts for ever and has a slightly odd taste. Yesterday I discovered that my landlord here sells amongst other things unpasteurised milk. It was something I had wanted to try for a long time. In some parts of [...]
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We spent last night in a town about 200kms from Hyderabad called Raichur. Off all the guide books we found probably the nicest hotel we have so far stayed in. Raj and Agata booked themselves into the Presidential Suite for the princely sum of 1,800 rupees which is about 23 pounds. I went for the basic single room which cost me 250 rupees or about 3 pounds. Quite the bargain. I even had hot [...]
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We are Up the Junction! Hubli Junction to be precise. Henry and I are rather lagging behind Justin and co in the other rickshaw. Whilst they have reached Hampi and in fact latest news puts them just 200 kms short of Hyderabad, we are still enjoying Hubli Junction. The town is famous for… a big train junction. This could have been as exotic as Clapham train junction were it not for our lovely hotel. [...]
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We have now arrived in Hampi. This is India’s answer to Ankgor Wat and whilst we have yet seen very little of it it appears very impressive indeed. Henry and Stephen spent an extra night in Goa whilst Raj, Agate and I drove on to Hampi, stopping over night in a little town by the Goa border. We arrived in Hampi this evening and will have a proper tour of all the temples in [...]
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We arrived in Goa on the 30th December. Naturally as Goa appears to be the Tenerife of India we were completely unable to find anywhere to stay. After some struggle our two rickshaws plus the Gin Soaked Rogues who we met at the border decided to go our seperate ways and we all eventualy found beds for the night. The following morning Henry had managed to find us a couple of rooms in a [...]
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So we arrived in Doha last night looking forward to a hard nights sleep on the airport floor…. Much to my surprise we were ushered to a transfer desk where Qatar Airways informed us they were putting us up in a local hotel. To make things even better we were allowed our own rooms so I managed to avoid Stephen’s snoring and actually managed a little sleep. Not only that but we were given [...]
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Quick check in here! We are in Bombay and just have a few minutes before the flight to Cochin. Stayed in a simple hotel last night with the grand name of Regency Hotel, Bombay! Nothing regal about it! We took a rickshaw to Bandra and had a wander round the shops. The traffic has to be seen to be believed. There are absolutely no road rules whatsoever. Basically you just hoot and give way [...]
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