Looking back at my 2020 reflections – A year like no ordinary.
Why am I torturing myself when the world is celebrating a new year? This was a question I asked myself on New Year’s Eve of 2019. Little did I know that I was also celebrating a fresh beginning, without being aware of it. The tortures that I was going through, would set me free for ...
Pachamanca – Celebrating mother earth with the traditional food of the Andes.
It was Mother’s Day when I had Pachamanca for the second time. This ancient traditional delicacy is believed to be originated even before the Incas. In Quechua, ‘Pacha’ means earth and ‘manca’ means a pot. I have never heard of it before, but it reminded me of a different cooking technique we have in rural ...
Lost in Peru – Riding on the kindness of people.
I got kicked out of my apartment on the first night after returning to Dublin, as my flatmate thought that he’d surely die of the virus. Rewind back a few months and I would find myself accepted for who and what I was, in the Sacred Valley, Peru; amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic forced lockdowns ...
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