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Take me to the beach
We got to Trujillo at 6 in the morning. As usual taxi men are waiting to give you the greatest deal so we hopped in and wanting to get out of the city, no offense to people living in trujillo but we needed a little change from the city scene, so towards the beach it was. There's a little town about 20 minutes outside of Trujillo called Huanchaco. …
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Party like it's 1999
... dirt don't hurt, but when you pay US$100 in a place like Peru, I feel like I can have some expectations. Oh and did I mention that we were supposed to get picked up from the airport by the hotel? Yeah, didn't happen. Instead we got charged double the price by a local taxi driver. Oh well.
But as we say in Swedish: "Inte hänga läpp", a version of "Don't let your lips sag!", our first Trujillo Pilsner tasted fantastic as we sat on ...
American Psycho
... Snapshot (she rather likes taking pictures)
Physical age: 64 years old.
Acts like: 8 years old
Either that or the family brain cell has been firmly left behind in her home in Florida.
Supposedly well-travelled although all evidence points to the contrary
Constantly has a camera in her hand, taking hundreds of pictures of the most mudane of sights - my personal favourite were clouds as we were driving through the cloud ...
Livingstone, I Presume
Livinstone, I Presume by Judith Booking by e mail in English into McCallum's hostel in the surfing resort of Huanchaco, we expected to be greeted by a compatriot by the name of Patricia McCallum. The lovely Patricia turned out to be three quarters Peruvian, spoke not a word of English, but had a grandfather from Livingstone. The e mail in perfect English had been written by her son. Huanchaco is a curious mixture of local fisherman riding ...
Leaving Huaraz for the coast
... and fishing villages. Not at all unlike Lanzarote. After lunch we pushed north towards Trujillo. Again it was mostly totally barren desert although every now and then you would cross a river system and then the world would abruptly turn green for ten miles or so as you crossed the irrigated fruit and cane growing areas.
The inland towns are not pretty and we try to make it through ...


