He kissed her… ar-dent-ly

One of the first Aus­tralian films I ever showed Doug was The Old Man who Read Love Stor­ies, Rolf de Heer’s divine piece about the Amazon jungle with Richard Drey­fus as an old man learn­ing to read. He has this beau­ti­ful latino accent as he reads these trashy...

Deepest, darkest Peru

I can under­stand why Pad­ding­ton Bear needed a duffle coat in Eng­land if he was used to the heat of the Amazon. We stepped off the plane and instantly felt the muggy love.The boat ride to Explorer’s inn was already amaz­ing. We saw turtles on the Tam­bopata...

Las ruinas

Finally got to Pachaca­mac, the Inca ruins south of Lima. Quite incred­ible. We wandered around for a while won­der­ing why they had built their huge temples and city here when we went up inside the Templo del Sol and over it and sud­denly could see the entire...

Day 4

Doug says he´s found the world´s best sport: bus surf­ing in Peru. We hopped on a mini-bus tonight on the way back from dinner (omigod, ceviche mixto – amaz­ing mar­in­ated raw fish and sea­food in lime and chil­lis) and I can´t count the number of times it...

Day 1

Our flights were delayed, we almost missed our con­nec­tion so that a three-hour lay­over in Hou­s­ton turned into a five-minute sprint between ter­min­als only to find the second flight had also been delayed. Doug kept saying, “any day in which I don’t...