by janecanapini | Jan 13, 2015 | Attractions, Austria, Colombia, Egypt, Peru
Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but I definitely have a thing for gold. Especially when you see how incredibly versatile and beautiful it can be when worked by skilled artisans – both ancient and modern. Nothing else screams ‘luxe’ quite like...
by janecanapini | Jan 28, 2014 | Art, Artefacts, Peru
Taquile Island in Lake Titicaca, Peru, is known for its weavers. So I couldn’t resist searching for a unique artefact to bring back that reflects this culture…
by janecanapini | Dec 30, 2013 | Grownup Thoughts, Personal, Peru
There is a game in the boardrooms of ad agencies called Buzzword Bingo, in which meeting attendees count the number of times that clichéd business terms are tossed out in a meeting. Words like ‘synergy’, and ‘offline’, and ‘media...
by janecanapini | Jul 12, 2013 | Peru
The Inca were one crazy-ass people. Genius-crazy, but crazy nonetheless. Which is why I desperately wanted to walk in their footsteps to catch my first glimpse of their cloud city of Machu Picchu. The only problem with this plan was the fact that the Inca Trail...