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Saturday, August 7th, 2010

It amazes me that months after I stopped updating this site it still gets a lot of hits. So I’m going to mention my new venture here too (originally posted on my shiny new blog site; Tuisligh.com. This entry can be viewed there with added photos.

And now onto today’s topic….

Back in 2007 I spent some time living in Peru. I had an adventurous few months there during which I survived an 8.0 Earthquake, performed a baptism and ate a chicken that was swimming in its own blood.

And how could I forget, accidentally brought the kids to a torture museum.

Along the way I also befriended a Peruvian family. Kelly and her crew brought me to lots of fun places I would never have heard about from a guidebook. Like the water fountain park that had just made it into the Guinness Book of Records (don’t know why because I was only learning Spanish at the time – I just about understood the Guinness bit).

Kelly and her family have now extended their house and are taking lodgers. This is a great (and cheap) way to live in Peru and get to know the local culture. Whenever people ask me which were my favourite countries on my trip it’s always the countries I spent at least 2 or 3 months in. If I’d stayed in a hostel in Peru, I would have missed out on most of the really incredible experiences I had there.

To help them make the most out of the interweb I’ve set up a little website to get the word out there.
It’s www.homestayperu.net.
If you know anyone who is looking for a place to stay in Lima, please, spread the word!

I’m now on Twitter. Feel free to follow me @clairecanning. I also Tumblr as Gaeilge (in Irish); http://tuislighbeag.tumblr.com.