PERU | Thursday, 15 May 2014 | Views [819] | Scholarship Entry
All I wanted was to travel down the Amazon and now I was sitting in a darkened room, surrounded by armed men, some searching my bag, and one, with a touch shining on my face, asking questions. How did I get here? I don't know, just in the wrong place ... Read more >
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PERU | Thursday, 18 Apr 2013 | Views [364] | Scholarship Entry
Swimming in the Pacific one day, on a board in an Andean market the next – that's the fate of a sea bass bound for the traditional Peruvian dish of cerviche. However interesting the debates on the origin of the dish might be they miss a crucial aspect ... Read more >
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PERU | Monday, 21 Mar 2011 | Views [411] | Scholarship Entry
I had spent more than a day with the smell of drying coca leaves permeating the atmosphere but now that I’d arrived in Pucallpa I was in search of a different drug. Probably pre-dating the use of the narcotic leaf that now has such a bad reputation ... Read more >
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