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I\'m a teacher!
I'm a teacher now! So I guess that means I have to wear jackets with elbow patches and that I'll have to ruin two perfectly good jackets to do so.A questionable fashion sense is a prerequisite for any budding teacher but I'm afraid in Perú that one ...
Outstaying a welcome
We're fast outstaying our welcome with Algae and her increasingly-annoying daughter with the name I'm no longer arsed remembering. The former has taken to lying at a rate only beaten by the speed at which her never-ending house rules arrive.The latte...
The crab who wanted to die
We find ourselves this Saturday night in Mejia, a ghost town beside the sea. The misleadingly-named Pacific crashes day and night along it's magnificent beach, but that's about all that's going on.An abandoned village with nothing to do and nobody to...
Educational progress
Another week almost over, and classes at Escuela Flora Tristán are progressing at an educational rate. Where learning is being done, it's very hard to measure progress at all, but things are progressing in any case, even it it's nothing more than th...
Putains!
Fuckbags. Cheating lying fuckbags. I'm struggling to contain my disdain and contempt for an act of dishonesty so contemptible you would immediately assume England was at fault. Not France. But France it was who cheated Ireland out of the World Cup an...
Rip-off boleto
Gringos and tourists are there to be taken advantage of in Perú. No matter where you go, what you see, some fucker will try rip you off.An official with more self-importance than a peacock boarded the bus to Colca Canyon and tried sell us a Boleto T...

