The Beauty of Guitars

When I was a kid, my best friend and I decided to start a band in his dad's shed. We didn't have much equipment, he had a beaten up old drum kit and I had a barely-working electric guitar plugged into my dad's old reel-to-reel tape recorder.

We practised hard and loved every minute of it. Eventually we became worthy of the title "musician" and graduated to better equipment. But we never lost the feeling of excitement we had when we began our musical journey in that drafty old shed all those years ago.

These days, I've got a small collection of lovely guitars and I appreciate their form and physical presence just as much as the tones they produce. I have some great photos of my guitars, as well as those of friends. I hope you enjoy them.

Painting an orange guitar

Photo by Dr H

Oil-can-guitar player

Photo by Steve Crane

Multi-coloured guitar on the street

Photo by aswinkb

Surfing in Chicama, Peru, And Some Tips to Find Cheap Flights

Hi, welcome to my post about surfing in Peru and how to find the cheapest plane tickets to Lima.

But first, I will teach you some Spanish so you can have an easier way to talk with the locals:)

If you want to ask  how can you find cheap flights to Peru´s capital Lima to a travel agent, in Spanish you say:

“Como puedo conseguir pasajes en oferta y economicos a Lima?, nescesito vuelos Baratos a Peru por favor, muchas gracias”

Well, that is the start, after you get a great airfare to fly into Peru using the different  “search engines flights”  in the Internet(by the way I recommend Kayak.com and Vuelosbaratos.es as they are my favorites), it´s time to talk about Peru´s premier surf destination, Chicama.

Chicama is a small fishing village about 40 kilometres from the Trujillo city in Northern Peru. It is a world famous surf spot as it is know to be the longest left hander in the earth.

For this wave to work, it needs very strong swells, so if you are planning to go there just to surf, a great Idea is to wait for the Swells in Huanchaco beach. It is a very nice town near Trujillo city and you have more consistent waves as it beach is more exposed, hence need smaller swells.

Anyway, the best season for surfing in Chicama is from March to September.

Here is a video for you to check how amazing this wave is!

 

Hope you can make it there as it is an amazing surf spot and get to know the amazing Peru people, ancient culture and taste Peru´s main meal the ceviche!