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Christmas Crackers (Harauz Peru)

Christmas Eve is spent on a roof top. This time the Northern Peruvian City of Harauz. These roof tops are pretty much, much of a…

neilcoppenJanuary 1, 2008

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Revolt of Eggs and Cymbals

You might dread the endless scroll the meets your eyes when you open these entries. Why you might say, Get outside see the continent and…

neilcoppenDecember 28, 2007

musings South American travel

God bless the Homos (and tales of Bus Trip Festivities/Traversties)

Buses I have seen many the last few days, climbing from Cusco ( Memories of Mrs Piccua -unreal- swathed in her ancient mists) toward Lima.…

neilcoppenDecember 26, 2007

Short stories South American travel

Las Chicas del Helado Canela

Maria grew up on the shores of Lake Titicaca in the town of Copacabana.Of course Maria would have far preferred to be in school, but…

neilcoppenDecember 25, 2007

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Peru (part 1) Pageant of the Bizaare

Funny morning, stepped out of my hostel room only to be nearly trampled by two deranged llamas bolting down the cobbled streets, one frisky for…

neilcoppenDecember 16, 2007

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Bolivia (part 2) Above and Below

A visit to the Patosi Silver Mines in Bolivia, to get an alternative view of the state of things, proves both frightening and enlightening. A…

neilcoppenDecember 16, 2007

South American travel travel

Bolivia (part 1) Part Dickens, Part Dr Seus

If not for the festive folk music, phycadellic salt pans, flamingo infested lakes, pits of sulphurous belching earth, I´d say im fond of Bolivia for…

neilcoppenDecember 16, 2007

musings South American travel

Child of the Sun

To my unborn nephew/niece- but an inkling in your apache mammas belly.Whatever being you be- for at this point biology has not yet markated you…

neilcoppenDecember 16, 2007

musings South American travel travel

Of Impossible Yearning

Sunday morning and I sit on a bench in La-Paz , watch a Plaza market rising. Ignoring the persistence of shoe shine boys ( and…

neilcoppenDecember 9, 2007

Short stories South American travel

The Luckiest Man Alive

He did not flinch in bidding Paris his hometown adieu: far too petite, too pretentious to contain his irrepressibly itchy feet. At twenty ”“two he…

neilcoppenDecember 9, 2007

Christmas Crackers (Harauz Peru)

Revolt of Eggs and Cymbals

God bless the Homos (and tales of Bus Trip Festivities/Traversties)

Las Chicas del Helado Canela

Peru (part 1) Pageant of the Bizaare

Bolivia (part 2) Above and Below

Bolivia (part 1) Part Dickens, Part Dr Seus

Child of the Sun

Of Impossible Yearning

The Luckiest Man Alive

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