After scattering the ashes, we drove south on the Pan-American highway for about three hours to a temple complex at El Brujo (The Witchdoctor) where some very interesting discoveries had been made in 2006 which the archaeologists are still getting to grips with. The first part of the visit was interesting enough. You can see […]
I’m trying to think what the opposite of “haute cuisine” would be. I need my friend F. to advise, but “bas cuisine” is close enough. It’s fair to say that the food was not one of the highlights of the holiday! But then, I went there for the five-star rubble rather than fine dining, so […]
I took some of Christopher’s ashes with me to Peru, with the aim of scattering them somewhere I thought he’d appreciate. He would have really enjoyed the holiday, and would have loved taking photos of all the ruins. Obviously, I didn’t know the area at all, so I asked my guide for some advice for […]
On the afternoon of Boxing Day, my guide and driver took me to Túcume, also known as the Valley of the Pyramids. In fact, they’re not really pyramids at all, but large mud-brick platforms, some used for ritual purposes (e.g. temples) and others apparently being administrative complexes. It’s mostly unexcavated as yet, but there have […]
Some of my friends seem to think I’m a pretty intrepid traveller, given the way I keep taking myself off to interesting places for holidays. In fact, it’s hard work travelling long-haul by myself, especially to somewhere where I don’t speak the language. There’s nobody to keep an eye on my bags while I nip […]
On Boxing Day I was again picked up from my hotel at 08:30, and driven out to Huaca Rajada, a mud-brick burial platform from the Moche culture, spanning the years approximately AD1-700. Archaeologists were first alerted to the site in 1987, when looters discovered a burial rich in gold. There was a major falling-out amongst […]
As I mentioned yesterday, I’d challenged Explore Tailormade to come up with a full programme of visits on Christmas Day, despite the fact that it was a public holiday in Peru and all the main site were closed. They rose to the challenge magnificently. I was picked up at 8:30 in the morning by my […]
Since it’s very nearly the end of the year, I thought it would be instructive to look back at my New Year Resolutions from a year ago, to see how things turned out. They were, in no particular order: Fixing the leak in the porch roof, which drips every time it rains – hmm. Still […]
Chris was a real fan of Apple products, and a veritable early adopter of their stuff. Not in fact as early an adopter as my family though – when I was a teenager we had one of the first Apple][+ computers in the country, which I blame firmly for my subsequent career as an engineer […]
Now that I’ve been back home for over a week, I can look back at the several weeks I spent staying at Fawlty Towers during the equipment trial and laugh at the ongoing incompetence of the staff – but at the time it wasn’t so funny. It’s a real shame, because it could be a […]
