I am Alan Booth, an ordinary British Man . I'm not one of the famous people that have the same name as me, just an ordinary guy. Welcome to my main blog, a true reliable record of history from the perspective of an ordinary man, a place filled with my thoughts; perhaps my thoughts will persist longer on here than in my brain itself. My twitter I.D. is @alspresso.
Monday, 4 July 2022
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Friday, 11 August 2017
July in Peru
Last month in July, I spent 3 weeks in Peru with my wife and extended family. Her family treated me very well and made me feel welcome. They fed me very well and made me feel relaxed.
I admired my new parents, they have a lot of integrity and good values in the world and work very hard and are very intelligent. I hope to return to Peru with a new member of the family soon and make them proud.
While I was there, I celebrated my birthday and two other family members birthdays. I also celebrated our wedding and a family members graduation. There was at least one celebration every week I was there.
My parents came to Peru a week after me and I felt happy because they came into my world. Peru is a part of my world because I have been there before and it is my wife's country. We all stayed in the north of the country where very few English people go to so me and my Parents have been to a place where very few English people have been. They came all the way there just because of me. Flying to Peru takes more than 12 hours from the UK because it is more than 5,000 km away on the Pacific rim in South America.
Peru is a beautiful country that is filled with mountains and arid fields, desserts and a rich history. There are also green valleys and tropical plants. There are countless sites and artifacts left behind from the Inca civilization. I spent most my time in chicklayo, a small city with a population of roughly one million people. There are no trains in chicklayo but there is a small airport and thousands of affordable taxis that move through every corner. The buses in the city are all private companies. The center of the city is fairly neat.
The main dish in Peru is ceviche or potatoes dishes mixed with salad. And they have many varieties of sweet corn.
Monday, 7 March 2016
Blog openly and fly away
Today I am so happy and grateful that I am still alive and well.
Today I have decided not to hide any of my blog material from my main feed on Facebook but to post to my main feed and blog page together.
If I annoy people then they can hide my posts from their newsfeed by clicking on the top right corner of the post and selecting hide or don't follow button. The "Alan's log" Facebook page will have the same content as my main feed but the posts will be public and contain hash tags. The main feed will be friends only privacy and just headings with no hash tags.
I had issues this week with the internet so I could not stay online long enough to buy my flight tickets to Peru in may, I will try again today.
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