There is more to Buenos Aires than food. If you love to read, you’ll have to visit the El Ateneo bookstore. Once an opera house, the impressive space is filled with thousands of books and a nice cafe. If you hate crowds, skip the San Termo Market. Thousands of vendors, selling everything from Malbec to vintage art fill these space […]
Books, crooks, nooks
Buenos Aires
Imagine if you could put the architecture of Europe into a blender with a charred steak and a tropical climate. That’s Buenos Aires, Argentina. The city is a breath of fresh air, yet incredibly peaceful, considering it’s three times the size of Manhattan. Huge parks are buzzing with parrots and other birds you may have only seen on the Travel […]
Rimac Close Up
Rimac is not on the videos you see posted on YouTube about Lima, Peru. Actually, Rimac is one of the areas in Lima you are warned not to visit, unless you are accompanied by a few buff guys, which I was. This vibrant districts is also home to one of Lima’s shanty towns that bring a bit of color to […]
Fa-la-la-la-llamas
It’s Christmas in Peru. Everything is decked in green and red, but you still can’t find an ugly holiday sweater. That’s because Christmas arrives in the summer, along with llamas and wiseman bringing gifts of sunscreen. No partridges in pair trees, just parrots in palm trees. And Santa takes a bus, that is, if there isn’t a transit strike. Truth […]
Battle of Ayacucho
Instead of having a mattress sale, Peruvians celebrate their war heroes with parades, each reminding me of the parade scene in Godfather II where young Don Corleone had Don Fanucci killed.
San Ramon
On the advice of Pedro, the gentleman I met at a local bakery who had an encounter with a Peruvian UFO, I ventured to San Ramon this Thanksgiving. Why? I was more interested in looking at birds instead of space aliens. Actually, Pedro isn’t the only Peruvian who recommended San Ramon. Being on the eyebrow of the jungle, San Ramon […]