Lima is logically the first place many international tourists visiting Peru come, and as is true of almost any capital city around the world, it is not really indicative of the rest of the country. At first it can be a hard city to warm to, especially if arriving in the long winter when the…
We were welcomed to by a sign, seemingly erected in the 1960s. Nothing seemed terribly special about this stretch of busy main road leading to the centre of Barranco in the south of Lima; just an ordinary Lima suburb, neither especially clean and tidy nor particularly dirty and disorganised. While Miraflores, where we were living, is known…
Welcome to another in our “Expat Living” interview series, where we interview expats we meet on our travels for an insider’s point of view on what it’s like to live and work as an expat around the world. Mari is a British expat living in Peru. Originally from North Wales, she moved to Lima in…
A friend of mine asked me recently whether all the food in South America was organic simply because most producers could’t afford to use pesticides. While this may be true in rural parts of the poorer countries, in cities it is very hard to know where what you’re eating has come from and how it…
We went in to make some chocolates, but we came out of the Choco Museo with much more. We were greeted by Vesna, a lively Peruvian girl, studying to be a lawyer with plans to move to Canada with her boyfriend, and she explained that the workshop would be just with the two of us….
After sitting in cafés, visiting art galleries and museums is probably our second favourite activity while in large cities. So after visiting many during our time in Lima, we decided to put together a list of our top five art galleries and top five museums so you don’t have to suffer through the ones that…
Our Food Porn Fridays are mostly a selection of the best places we’ve eaten, snacked or drunk at during the past week. Of course, you’ll be able to get early access to all the places we check in to every day by following us on Foursquare, which you can do through the website, the iPhone…
From now on, Food Porn Fridays will mostly be a selection of the best places we’ve eaten, snacked or drunk at during the past week. Of course, you’ll be able to get early access to all the places we check in to every day by following us on Foursquare, which you can do through the…
From now on, Food Porn Fridays will be a selection of the best places we’ve eaten, snacked or drunk at during the past week. Of course, you’ll be able to get early access to all the places we check in to every day by following us on Foursquare, which you can do through the website,…
From now on, Food Porn Fridays will be a selection of the best places we’ve eaten, snacked or drunk at during the past week. Of course, you’ll be able to get early access to all the places we check in to every day by following us on Foursquare, which you can do through the website,…
A few weeks ago, I tried out something a bit different than our regular Food Porn Friday segment by reviewing some of our favourite places from Arequipa through our Foursquare check-ins, and I decided that I rather prefered that format to the regular one. So, while in the future there may be the odd Food…
Bike tours will always remain popular with those who simply love to bike. After all, it is a fantastic experience to go on a man-powered road trip that takes you on a long-distance ride and lasts for a while. As you pass through new places and cross adventures terrains, you gain new experiences and capture…