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Published: August 16th 2008
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The Lunch Crowd
This ain't even all of them! Did you know that Peruvians have large families? I found that out the hard way. Rose told me that a couple of uncles she had never met wanted to meet her. We should invite them for lunch. A day or so earlier, we had found the absolute best food in the town of Pimentel. If you are ever here, you have to go to a place called La Tiendita del Pato. Pato is a pretty hefty guy. All right, he is big, huge, a very large man. It was easy to see that he enjoys good food. His little place is right around the corner from our apartment, and across the way from the Capitania de la Guarda Costas (Coast Guard HQ). The food was excellent, if not slightly pricey.
Rose’s sister, Valeria, did the inviting. Big mistake. She showed up and we went to Pato’s place to meet the uncles. The uncles........their wives...... their cousins........and everyone's children. We ended up feeding like 40 people for lunch. It is a good thing we are in Peru. Lunch only ended up costing us $250 plus the nice tip for the waitresses.
Yesterday, we went on a little bye-bye with our
Rose and her big hat
This is a fountain with a really big hat on top in Puerto Eten. I guess every town has to have SOMETHING special. friends who live in Chiclayo, Tom and Maribel. We wanted to check out Puerto Eten which is a little fishing village down the road from where we are. We grabbed a collectivo, which is a small taxi that carries five people, uncomfortably. Each person pays about one Sol (35 cents, more or less), and when the taxi is full, you depart. This can sometimes take a while. Since we were four people and agreed to pay the extra Sol for the fifth imaginary passenger, we left right away. We asked the driver how much he would charge to take us all the way to Pto Eten and he said thirty Soles, which is about ten bucks. Nope, not us. Too rich for our blood. We took this ride as far as Santa Rosa, the next town over. From there, we caught a combi, which is a full size van that holds somewhere around fifteen people. They get on and they get off at different places on the route and everyone pays about a Sol each. This combi went all the way to Pto Eten, which was quite a ride. We had the pleasure of riding with a bunch of guys
Puerto Eten Street Scene
Traffic jam in Pto Eten. who obviously work with fish. The road was dirt all the way except for the part that was a river.
We arrived in Pto Eten and looked around. We were lucky enough to witness a fishing boat being launched, and if our internet connection holds up, we’ll have a pic or two of that event posted for you. We checked out the local cathedral, the Plaza de Armas (central park that every Peruvian city has one of), and there was not a heck of a lot else to look at.
We jumped in a taxi and went to Reque, the next town inland between Pto Eten and Chiclayo. There was a house there that was for sale that I wanted to see. It was a large two story job on a large country lot. We got to Reque and asked around. We never found the house, because the description of the house said it was built in a style that uses adobe and sticks and mud, and Rose figured it would dissolve in a big rain. Well, we didn’t go there but we did go to a park-like setting where a kid’s party was underway. The restaurant served
Little Dude Gathering Wood
These folks hooked up to burro and pulled their trailer down to the beach to gather wood. This kid WANTED me to take his picture, so I did. us up nice portions of cabrito (kid goat). YUMMY!
Next blog entry will probably be after our trip up the coast to Mancora, which is supposed to be a really nice beach. Don’t change that dial!
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