Another town, another KFC!
In Peru all the towns are very different, so it’s very interesting to travel from place to place. I used to live in Arequipa, known as ’the white city’ because it has traditional buildings made with white volcanic rock called ‘sillar’. This feature is unique in Peru and many foreign and Peruvian people come to visit Arequipa to see the buildings.
I used to like to go to Cusco, I like a lot all the stone buidings, and the atmosphore in there. Cusco and Arequipa are in the same country but they are very different, there are different shops and I feel that people is different too. And there are more extreme comparisons between cities, for example Iquitos a city close to the Amazon River and another city in the mountains are completely different places.
There are just a few chain stores in Peru and most of the business are independent.
In the UK, I have travelled to many places like Nottingham, Brighton, Bournemouth, Eastbourne, Southampton, Cardiff, Exceter, Aylesbury, etc and I noticed that everything looks very similar, with the exception of some towns like Bath or Harrogate. But the worst thing is that big chain stores have taken over the high streets and they have destroyed small businesses.
When I traveled from Portsmouth to Nottingham I felt I hadn’t traveled a lot because I saw the same shops like Boots, Superdrug, Greggs, WHSmith, Starbucks, Cafe Nero, Next, MacDonalds, PizzaHut, Burger King, KFC, JD Weatherspoons, Argos, Primark, etc. I feel something should be done to try to save the things that make a town unique.
