Archive for April, 2009
My Favorite Bar in AQP
Posted on 30. Apr, 2009 by Colin.
SUMMARY: Pics of the coolest bar in downtown AQP.
La Tradición is great and I go to Deja Vu a lot. But El Balde is the coolest bar in Arequipa. It’s on San Francisco near Forum, Deja Vu, etc. The music’s funky, anything from Led Zepellin to The Gorillaz. Killer art deco. They make huge drinks served in buckets – 1 or 3 litres! The Torito is Red Bull and pisco (disgusting). I get one litre of Red Bull and cheap gin for S/. 18. That’s a whole can of Red Bull and a lot of gin!
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My First Mugging in Colombia
Posted on 12. Apr, 2009 by Colin.
SUMMARY: My story of getting mugged my first week in La Candelaria, Bogota, Colombia. Other stories from the neighborhood too.
After staying in La Candelaria last year, I was convinced I’d live there if I ever moved to Bogotá. After a week in the neighborhood, however, I’m convinced I won’t stay. The bums, drug dealers, thieves, scoundrels, and sketchballs are too much. I’m leaving. Jump to the mugging … Read more
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The Final Word on Bricheras
Posted on 08. Apr, 2009 by Colin.
SUMMARY: After a year in Peru I explain what it means to be a brichera and categorize them into Type 1′s or Type 2′s.
In retrospect my first Peruvian girlfriend was a brichera given she offered to marry me. But the Peruvians said she wasn’t. She didn’t speak English and never had a gringo boyfriend. So my first bona fide, gringo-hunting brichera (an English-speaker studying tourism) came my last week in Arequipa … Read more
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