Clothes Shopping in Polvos Azules
Chato recently had a growth spurt and has gotten too tall for all his jeans, so we figured now was as good a time as any to go shopping for some new ones. When the boys were little, we bought most of their clothes in Gamarra, the garment and textile district. We weren’t really concerned [...]
Baby Clothes and Toys in Lima
Living in Peru, you get used to things you consider “everyday” being hard – if not impossible – to find. In other cases, you might be able to find items you’re looking for but the prices are just ridiculously high. Now, for a lot of things – say Cheddar cheese – you can get by. [...]
Finding Books in Peru
I’ve mentioned before that I hang out on the Expat Peru website quite a bit – actually, I’m one of the moderators of the forum. Something that comes up very frequently on our forums is the problems people have with finding English reading material here in Peru. For those of us in Lima, a lot [...]
Free Stuff!
Everybody likes to get free stuff, so I thought I’d share some things I found on around the internet with you. Are your kid’s getting the summertime blues? If it’s the end of summer and you’re running out of things for them to do, try this free .pdf download from National Geographic – The Little [...]
How My Life in Peru Spent Our Weekend
I’ve been so busy lately hanging out with my sister that I haven’t had much of a chance to blog about it – so I’m just going to throw out a quick rundown of things we’ve been doing. Saturday, we went out to lunch at one of my favorite restaurants, El Sabor del Gordo, over [...]
Shopping at Plaza Vea
Image via Wikipedia Plaza Vea is my favorite Peruvian supermarket (or ‘hipermercado’ as they long to call themselves – I guess ‘hyper’ is better than ‘super’). If I’m comparing them to the other major chains, I’d say they’re cleaner than Metro, which is their main price point competition, and they’re less expensive than the rest [...]
Surquillo Market #1
Since I went to the Market #2 on Sunday, my mom and I decided to check out Market #1 yesterday. Those are the actual names of the markets, not their ranking, by the way. Market #1 is closer to my house, and I can catch a combi from right in front of my house that [...]
The Surquillo Market #2
Where ever you live in Lima, you’re bound to be close to a market. Like I talked about in my post last week, the markets tend to sell a little bit of everything – fruits and vegetables, household sundries, pet foods, dry goods, socks and underwear.. pretty much everything you need is there. I went [...]
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