SANCTUARY FIRST
posted: 7 Apr 2009 comments: 2category:
Well I'm back in in Scotland after a busy couple of weeks moving around Peru. I was glad that Willie insisted that we get seats at the front of the plane. We arrived late into Amsterdam and just reached the checking in gate for Edinburgh before it closed. I don't think either of us could have stuck another six hours in an airport. Anyway big thanks to Willie, he was a great travelling companion, we got on well and I believe we managed to move our projects on a little...
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The return journey from Ica was very pleasant. We had our five hour trip reduced to four hours because we used the Royal Classic Service. The bus had seen better days but it was an express service. We even had reclining seats. This was pure luxury compared to the busy service bus the previous days. It was well worth the extra 17 soles.
I check my film in the cam corder and decided there was enough footage for Rae to use in a short film we're making for a client of...
There is so much to learn and not enough time to understand all that you see around you. The Jungle seems a far cry from the desert but that's where I've been for the past day. We took a five hour trip by bus to Ica. Ica is a city of around 300,000 people. It is in the Atacama desert. This is an area of olives and vines and nuts. It is also the area of Peru that was hit with an enormous earthquake in August 2007. The bus lacked air conditioning but it was busy as people...
Moving on the river in a noisy tin bath of a boat makes me aware of the contrast between nature's engineering and our man-made engineering. A fish swims silently and graceful in the water while our boat moves like an angry noisy monster, cumbersomely up river. You know, I'm thinking to myself what I would give just to feel the peace and serenity of my surroundings. But the boat droans on.
Ideas turn over in my head like cash in a bank. If only we could keep in...