I was on Craigslist Buenos Aires today looking for a job and I came across this little gem: “Argentinean are just at the bottom of the bottom out of all the scumbags you can find in this world… THIRD WORLD COUNTRY like it or not… There are not jobs like in the US other than [...]
I almost died on the way home to Cusco from Lima. Maybe that’s a little dramatic. But it felt pretty damn real at 4 am, when our driver took a little nap behind the wheel and we veered dramatically across the narrow Andean road before one of the wheels blew. This was enough to [...]
Sunday, mid-afternoon. It seems like all of Trujillo has escaped from the sweat and grime of a summer’s day in the city to the rocky, charming but now way-too-crowded beach of Huanchaco. It’s the last day of my beach holiday, and I’m hoping for a miraculous three-shade deepening of my tan in the few hours [...]
Reading in your target language is a wonderful way to improve your language skills, especially when you hit the intermediate/advanced plateau. It broadens your vocabulary and familiarises you with those more complicated grammatical structures. It opens a window on the cultural – and pop-cultural – context of the language. And it gives you a tiny [...]
The most beautiful shots of “El Perro del Hortelano” are of the river, and the cameras repeatedly, inevitably return to it. From the first, haunting scene as laughing indigenous children launch themselves into the brown water, to Angie’s water nymph-like pose by the waterfall, life in the communities of the film resolves around the life-sustaining [...]
Ugh. I hate this room. If I don’t wake up to the sun on my face it takes me an age to get going. And it’s so cold out here in the casita, the little laundry shed that will soon be knocked down to make way for our new hostel bar. The sooner the better, [...]
and yes, meeting up for a drink would be awesome! And I know!! I’m such a...
