Casa Andina Private Collection - Miraflores Lima

... the book and bag that we "misplaced" briefly. Sadly the same couldn´t be said for Alex´s recently bought $5 shawl.

Next was off to for the Spanish Inqusition and downtown Lima. Now I´ve obviously heard the phase "the Spanish Inquisition" loads but wasn´t it something to do with Monty Python or one of those shows? Bascically it was an ecclesiastical tribunal run by us Catholics to punish and torture non-believers- nice. The central one for the Latin World happened ...

... then mix again.  Serve the Cerviche with sweet potatoes and boiled corn on cob. 

Pisco Sour

-       3oz pisco (Quebranta or Blend)

-       1oz sugar syrup or 2 tablespoons of sugar

-       1oz lime juice

-       ½ egg whites

-       ice cubes

blend for 30 secs in blender or cocktail shaker until ice is blended.  Serve in a cocktail glass and garnish with 2 drops of bitters (will find out which one)

Salut

 

Bet you all thought you'd be getting a really exciting, in-depth article about the latest shaman I've visited or last week's deadly Communist protests; you know, the kind that we hear about all so often in the States. Well, sorry to disappoint but the truth is that Peru has a routine of its own and sometimes things aren't that different from back home. Still, I feel like I owe you all something especially with the lack of visual evidence coming in.

Lima, Lima, Peru markthom

... the scene, it s**iously looked like b**uit (b**uit will feature again soon....).

went to get ready for the party, upon picking up my brown body paint from eamonn holmes it was apparent that the one lay** it took to turn him pakistani was not going to work for this sun loving jamaican. 5 lay**s lat** it was go time. At the aparty we had abba, saddam, statue of lib(by)**ty, seamus dressed lit**ally as a turkey, mexixo, maori, greek, indian ...

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Today we walked all around Miraflores and ate at Punto Azul, a wonderful lunchtime restaurant recommended by Angelo - the only restaurant we saw all day that had a line of people waiting to get in. We dealt with that by continuing our walk and postponing lunch till 3 o'clock. We walked the length of Calle San Martin and Nancy took pictures of EVERY street sign and house name that mentioned Saint Martin. There were lots of them.

... over the river and head to a church we saw ahead but suddenly two police stop us and we are unsure why as we don't understand the Spanish easily but we eventually get that they are telling us to go back the other way and pointing at our watches we understand they are warning us this is an area for theft. So we do a quick return across the bridge and to the square nearby we find a tourist info booth where we are told by the man at the desk ...

... is that our guide could have gone a bit faster, but given that one of his troupe brained themselves on an oncoming truck last week then perhaps there is good reason to squeeze the brakes a bit and keep a little in the tank. Ride completed, its off to our hostal for the night in Santa Maria - a remote town with a dirt track for its main drag. A football team is assembled from our group, with the Global Allstars (Italy, Chile, Australia, France) victorious over the local team by way of ...

... Quito as part of my around the world ticket and the tour wasn't scheduled to start for another week. So a day later Sarah and I caught a bus down from Le Serrina to Santiago. At the bus station in Santiago a funny incident happened. Sarah and I decided to get some food at the bus station once we arrived in Santiago while Sarah waited for her connecting bus to Argentina. I went to get some fried chicken at one of the fast food joints; at ...