Sofitel Lima

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המ ;סעדה קטנה וביתי 14;, כ15 שולחנ 93;ת זוגיי ...

... a tall, dark beautiful woman with striking blue eyes (sorry we never got a picture of her - unbelievable!) who doesn't want it known immediately how caring and generous she is. She and my mother had been working to try to free up the package that was sent two weeks prior to Lima. It was stuck in customs - needing a myriad of paperwork to get it out and Tania was fantastic in getting the list of things I needed to do to liberate the ...

We had 3 days to kill to Lima before flying to Cuzco and 2 would have been more than enough to see everything but it really wasnt as bad as everyone kept saying - apart from the weather. It was completely overcast for the whole 3 days we were there which was a bit depressing and which is why we didnt really take any pics to include here..

We were staying in the nicest neighbourhood were all the foreigners seem to live. It must be quite ...

... people were kind but I looked, lived, and felt so different from them. It was partly from being a foreigner and of a different race, but also because our lifestyles were so different.

As much as I complained about higher prices in Chile, things are generally cheaper there than at home (tampons and Starbucks excluded). A full lunch in Chile cost an average of $8 and in Peru $3. At home it would probably ...

Just a quick one night stop in Lima on the way to Cuzco.

A special mention has to go to the owner of the hostel who challenged a few of the guests, including yours truly, to a drinking game on naming the capitals of Europe. Easy I thought, how could a Peruvian know this better than me? Easy, until I realised that he meant capitals of Lithuania, Moldovia, Latvia (I know I should have got them ...

... it crossed back towards the notorious street corner and lo and behold by room was the corner room over looking the street seller and the blaring music and the sirens of police cars steaming along the Avenue Emancipation which was in "recuperacion". I could only liken the experience to one thing - when Tom Hanks was a little kid in Big staying in a dodgy apartment in downtown New York hearing gun shots. There he was curled up in the foetal position nursing ...

... history.



Our camera has been making grinding sounds for quite awhile, and during this tour it finally gave up the ghost. It died. It is dead. Pretty good timing, though, with only one day left on this trip!



It was lunchtime when our tour ended, but the restaurant at the site looked crowded and a little fancy for our needs, so we hailed a taxi and headed to Barranco, a suburb of Lima on the coast south of Miraflores. Our goal there was ...

Home of Paddington Bear and Aunt Lucy :-). Arrived in Lima late at night and drove through the city which is nothing as I imagined it, very westernised and lots of bright lights lighting up Casinos etc. but pretty clean and well signposted. Not much to do in Lima so have booked an internal flight to go to Cusco (an hour flight or a 22 hour bus ride!) Lots of Love Tracey xxx

... middle of the road, masterfully obscured by an array of trucks, donkeys and Inca Kola billboards. His associate comes over to apprehend us, explaining that when the traffic policeman has his back turned, that is the signal to stop, which we flagrantly disobeyed. Pleading genuine ignorance to this rule our representative of the law is totally unmoved, and proceeds to pull out a well worn and dogeared notebook. From this point on Pierpaolo and I are acutely aware that logic and compassion ...

... the idea of someone hijacking a bus amusing (fly this bus to Havana - or I shoot). The journey is down the coast & then inland - all of it through barren desert, apart from isolated oasis of green rice fields irrigated by rivers. Nazca Our journey took us past Nazca, we did think of doing the Nazca Lines until I realised that they had nothing to do with the derivative of the Coca plant. Another traveller had taken a flight ...