Some of the mysteries of Easter Island were shown to me on my trip there. Let me share with you a few theories/stories that caught my imagination: It looks like the Moai (big statues) ´walked´to their positions. We saw the quarry they were made and then were shown how they were possibly transported; upright, [...]
Category Archives: Book Two and South America
Una vida extraordinaria
The cinema in Lima is much cheaper than in NZ. When we discovered this it seemed silly not to go and check out a movie or two. And it turns out that most movies here have subtitles (which I love), rather than are dubbed (which I hate). We looked at the list of what´s playing; [...]
The Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
Last Sunday I was freaking out. In a moment of ´we can do anything´ enthusiasm I had long before booked for my Fijian and I to walk the inca trail to Machu Picchu. Just arriving there on a bus seemed t0o easy. A four day hike was the way forward. And so we hiked. Day [...]
Researching food
How do you create a sense of place when writing? There are many ways but I´m sure a very important one is through food. My second novel is currently weak on this point. While it is not set in a specific country, I want it to be recognisably Latin American. I´ve spent time in lots [...]
A whole lot of time on a bus.
On the map, the trip from Valparaiso in Chile to Arequipa in Peru doesn´t look that long. It´s only a nuckle or two up the page, only from one country to its neighbour. Perhaps I should have born the long thin nature of the first in mind or taken into the account that some of [...]
