The Blue House of Fire

So yesterday night we enetered this magnificient Blue house in our street, where a party was organized.
well, i still wonder if it was the most electric party i have ever been to. We have been dancing all night on Salsa, Cumbia, regaton ... a fire work of never ending rythms. Nothing else could make the rythm lover that i am more happy. Peruvians like to party and they know how to. Our night was accompagned by the electrifying "pisco Sauer" beverage. It is a mix of Pisco ( grappefruit spirit ), green lemon juice, sugar canne sirup and egg white. It is strong and keeps you awake and your feet elastic for the night. so we sweated all the sweat we had in store , made the girls laugh with our strange non local dance styles, o well....this night was all we needed to feel closer to the peruvian way of life.
Alex has a hard time this morning, little hung over, how could one not be. Peace

Our Neighborhood

Our neighborhood is full of colored houses, allowing us to feel better with the white sky ...

Ce ciel blanc de locco ... serait plus difficile a supporter sans ces couleurs, ces facades du quotidien a tout les coins de rue, métaphores d'une vie interieure riche en couleurs similaires.
Me manquerions nous pas de couleurs a Paris ..... ?
Alex ___________ ?¿

The Great Ocean

No comments .... the great ocean speaks for ourselves !
Alex .......................................................................?¿

Lima, first impressions

It took me a few days to recover from my excruciating trip. Now i am ready to explore this land. In the meantime we already met a lot of people. Their sympathy and their warm welcoming energizes us and recharges our batteries with great speed.
To every social aspect belongs the food dimension, and Peruvians don't need to envy any french cuisine since their cooking is of the finest style ! Since we are on the coast we eat a lot of fish here. The speciality here is called the "Ceviche" : which raw fish marinated in Lemon juice and spices. it is excellent and i am ready to have for every single lunch i will be here !!!! we also had something similar to ceviche which is composed of fresh mussels marinated in a garlic-lemon-octopuss ink sauce. it is incredibly invigorating and delicious. Peruvians proudly possess a collection 4500 species of potatoes, needless to say that french fries or gratin dauphinois are jokes compared to the yammy potatoe dishes they prepare here. Peruvians have a sweet tooth so deserts are one of their big specialities, lots of them are composed with sweet potato, lucuma, maracuya , chocolate , coconuts...it is the paradise of any desert afficianodo. Every morning i drink a coca tea. Coca is a medicinal plant here that the natives have been taking since thousands of years. It helps digestion, cures altitude sickness, and tonifies body and brain . It is similar to tea or coffee or yerba mate : it does the perfect job in waking you up ;) the taste is subtle and goes well with my passion for green tea.
It is winter right now so the weather is grey but it never rains. The grey sky creates a surrealistic light. The city being in the desert , everything is covered with a fine dust. The architecture is fascinating, chaotic where old colonial style wooden houses meet strange modern architecture. Lima is twenty times bigger then Paris, and 9 million people live here. The district we live in is called Barranco, it is one of the smallest district of this megapole. it is an old district, very colorfull were a lot of artists like to live, so we feel at home here. more news later......K

Eternal flight to Lima

The world is Big !!! it took me five flights to reach Lima from Paris. I admit i did not take the most direct route since i chose to make one stop in San Francisco California. From there it took me three more planes to fly me to my end destination. I had to stop in El Salvador and San Jose ( Costa Rica). it took me more or less thirty hours...Needless to say i was exhausted on my arrival !
...............k

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aie aie aie ... que ricccccco ! ici Lima, capitale tonitruante, cacophonique et anarchique ... un petit western de l'Amerique latine, passe precolombien et occident qui digere tout ce qui bouge s'y melangent etonnemment. Le tout sous un ciel gris, presque blanc qui opprese et repose a la fois, cadre ideal pour photographe fuyant les contrastes trop forts, et comme le remarquait Giuseppe: un environnement sans ombre!

Here are some views of our studio, very nice and big . An ideal working place we wish we had in Paris ;)

Nous avons un bel espace de travail et de vie (photo ci-dessus, cliquez) dans un batiment ou se trouvent ateliers de peintre, photographe, studio de musique, danse et theatre d'impro. Tout le monde est tres actif, ouvert et plein d'energie, ce qui semble necessaire dans un pays ou l'on ne trouve aucune aide pour l'art et la culture (il n'y a meme pas de ministere de la culture!)

Here you can see our host Giuseppe de Bernardi, running the Tupac Art Center and his girlfriend Melania , a very pretty famous peruvian actress. We feel like important people ;)

ci-contre, nos hotes: Giuseppe et Melania ... lui dirige le centre d'Art et elle est actrice et apparement assez connue au Perou vu comment les gens la regarde dans la rue.
C'est un plaisir de retrouver Giuseppe qui est tellement energetique et expressif, plein d'humanite et visionnaire comme il se doit pour diriger un centre d'art ici.

La ville est immense, tentaculaire, coincee entre des falaises bordees par un ocean qui semble glacial, et les flancs desertiques du debut de la cordillere des andes. L'architecture est, selon les endroits, futuriste et haute (semblant en meme temps etre faite de carton pate, voir ci-contre la photo qui en temoigne) ou en chantier: maisons basses et poussiereuses dont il semble toujours manquer un etage, les structures metalliques y depassant, telles des fleches pointees vers le ciel.

Il parait difficile de se sentir vraiment a l'aise dans cette ville, mais la nouveaute et la fascination jouent en notre faveur et nous la parcourons tels des enfants decouvrant un nouveau terrain de jeu.

Hasta pronto ..... Alex __________ ?¿