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Sherry Gets a (Speaking Spanish) Job !
July 11th, 2009 1 Comment
Tags: Immersion Schools · Learn Spanish · speak Spanish
Notes on Machu Picchu, Peru
May 18th, 2009 No Comments
Under the “What are the odds of that?” category: While walking down “restaurant row” in Aguas Calientes I ran into a fellow I had Spanish classes with in Guanjuato Mexico. What are the odds of that?
Tags: Aguas Calientes Peru · Learn Spanish · Learning Spanish · speak Spanish · Travel Spanish
Aguas Calientes, Peru – Doorway to Machu Picchu
May 18th, 2009 No Comments
Traffic isn’t bad here. In fact, it’s non-existent. There are no cars in Aquas Calientes for the simple fact that there are no roads leading to it. The only two ways you can get here are by train and by foot.
Tags: Aguas Calientes Peru · Learn Spanish · Learning Spanish · speak Spanish · Travel Spanish
Day Two in Peru — A Tour of the Sacred Valley
May 15th, 2009 1 Comment
We saw sheep herders and goat herders and people plowing behind oxen. We passed a string of mules (in a village) piled high with grain. We saw a bullfight. Okay, not a Spain type bull fight. A farmer was moving a couple of steers through town (think tiny, narrow streets) and just as we passed, two of his steers got into a bit of a tussle.
Tags: Chinchero · Learn Spanish · Learning Spanish · Maras · Marasal · Moray · Ollantaytambo · Peru · Sacred Valley · speak Spanish · Travel Spanish · Urubamba
We Are In Peru
May 14th, 2009 No Comments
Well, we’re finally in Peru. After a three hour drive to Miami, across Alligator Alley (which had been closed several nights because of smoke from a major forest – swamp – fire), a few hours in the Miami Airport (which doesn’t seem to have restaurants, only food courts), a 6 hour flight to Lima, a [...]
Tags: Aguas Calientes Peru · Cusco · Hostal Sauce · Learn Spanish · Learning Spanish · Machu Picchu · Ollantaytambo · Pisaq · Sacred Valley · Sazon Andina · speak Spanish · Urubamba
Forget Swine Flu, We’re Going to Machu Picchu
May 5th, 2009 No Comments
People tell me they’re worried that we’re going to Peru. But put it in perspective. We don’t stop traveling in regular flu seasons. And last year there were 38000 deaths in the U.S. from the regular flu. 38000. And how many with this new flu? 1. O-N-E.
Tags: Cusco · flu · influenza · Learn Spanish · Learning Spanish · Machu Picchu · Oaxaca Mexico · Ollantaytambo · Peru · speak Spanish · swine flu · swine-bird-flu · Travel Spanish
COINED, a Spanish Immersion School in Buenos Aires, Argentina – a Review
April 30th, 2009 1 Comment
My wife and I are at two different levels of learning, so we felt that we got a good sense, between us, of what the school would be like for most students. This was my first immersion school, but not my wife’s, so that added to the our overview of the school.
Tags: Argentina · Buenos Aires · COINED · Giorgio's House · immersion · Immersion school · Immersion Schools · Learn Spanish · speak Spanish · Travel Spanish
Our Peru Itinerary
April 23rd, 2009 No Comments
Our first stop, if you don’t count stopping in Cusco to prepay for train tickets to Machu Picchu, will be in the Sacred Valley town of Ollantaytambo. We have reservations at the Hostal Sauce. Yeah, strange name. It certainly isn’t cheap by Peruvian standards, but it includes a buffet breakfast, and they’ll transport us to [...]
Tags: Aguas Calientes Peru · Cusco · Cuzco · Gringo Bill's · Hostal Marini · Hostal Sauce · Learn Spanish · Machu Picchu · Ollantaytambo · Peru · Peru Rail · speak Spanish · Travel Spanish
Will the Flu “Pandemic” Cancel Our Trip to Peru and Machu Picchu?
April 30th, 2009 No Comments
I know it’s not a pandemic yet, even though Wolf Blitzer keeps saying that level 5 means that a pandemic is “imminent”. We’ve been planning this trip for a long time, and we certainly don’t want to overreact. We’ve prepaid for the two nights in Aguas Calientes, paid deposits for our rooms in Cusco and [...]
Tags: Aguas Calientes · cancel our trip? · Cusco · flu · Learn Spanish · Learning Spanish · Machu Picchu · Mexico · Oaxaca Mexico · Ollantaytambo · pandemic · Peru · speak Spanish · Travel Spanish