sabbatical Peruvian Days #2 / The Floating Islands Of Uros On arriving to the shores of Lake Titicaca you notice a few things. The first is the altitude. It's really high up – around 3800 metres above sea level – which you notice because the lack of oxygen starts giving you headaches, and also because the
sabbatical Peruvian Days #1 / Comidas I'm writing some posts about the one month that I spent in Peru. This is part 1, about the food in Peru. After spending a month in Peru I left with the impression that Peruvian food is seriously underrated. Peru has all sorts of
books What I'm Reading, October 2021 Edition You can find the September edition here. Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis. I want to say I'm enjoying this book, but if I am, why has it been sitting half-read in my Audible library for months? I can only seem to handle it a
sabbatical Curaçao Travel Notes I spent one week on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao (pronounced kura-SOW) recently. Here are some things that stuck out to me: Multi-lingual Curaçaoans, at least the ones who work in the tourist industry, speak multiple languages fluently. In restaurants I would see