Susi lunches with her colleagues and today they ate a locals’ place. It was a small unsophisticated restaurant with a powerful stereo. In an alchemic piece of cross-culturalism, it played very loud pan pipes renditions of classics, such as the timeless Lady in Red, Celine Dion’s unforgettable theme to Titanic and a compulsory Everything I Do (I Do It For You). And where was I, like a fool, during this cultural feast? In the Bolivian answer to Starbucks listening to James Blunt, without a pan pipe in ear shot. Surely, You’re Beautiful is crying out for the Andean treatment?
La Paz is a very romantic city. In every park, street corner and bench, there are teenagers and people old enough to know better canoodling and snogging. While this is going on everywhere, it appears somehow chaste and innocent, and rather charming.
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