Suites Del Bosque Hotel Lima

... kicked in. The latter also killed my appetite, and, of course, when I was finally able to stomach a meal on Thursday, it gave me a case of food poisoning. Whew! A fun few days they were not.
On Friday, fed up with laying about the hostel and cafes about town reading (not that I don´t love reading, and the views even in town were spectacular), I set out to do a day hike just outside of town. The schedule was to get a collective taxi to Llupa ...

... countires don't but their customs office really makes it difficutl to consider staying in Peru for any lenght of time. If you are travelling dont have stuff shipped here and if you do, I don't recommed FedEx.

I can recommend staying with Tania and the Eurobackpackers' Hostel - its a great place and with all the help and support we were able to be free again...

coming up - Rodrigo and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...

We have decided to stop here in Miraflores a couple of nights and rest up a bit, top up supplies and relax a bit. A general wander about.
Varous supplies needed and mail to post. A general chill out day!

While I've not got much to report, a bit on Peru.
It seems a country of extremes, the desert / beach, the ...

... guests for a couple of nights. We had a little tour of the city with her friend as our driver and we thought Lima was quite a beautiful city! I especially enjoyed seeing all the surfers out on the waves just off the green coast of the city. We did a couple of touristy things. The museum of the inquisition displayed all the forms of torture people accused of heresy had endured....and then the Catacumbas in San Francisco curch were also something to behold ...

... haven of Miraflores. Very edgy with a look of suspicion on everyone´s face, you had to keep all your valuables safe and I´m glad I left my big camera in the hostel. I went in with Yogev, an Israeli from the hostel and we found the Spanish Inquisition Museum which had dummies in various positions of torture which the Spanish ruling elite used to ¨correct¨ wayward individuals during the early ...

... walk into one of the shops that reminded me of something straight off Thomas St. in Dublin - all the more scary in that I'd understand the staff even less here.

Credit card transactions are only authorised here with a passport so had to pay with my well earned cash. Back at the hostel I meet the first of the group. It will be a group of six only - quite small but that's OK.

So who have we got then - bizarrely - small world and all that we've ...

Today we went into downtown Lima, to see all we could about St. Martin de Porres. The day began with a thorough briefing from Angelo. In response to a question about getting a cab., he outlined a great walking tour!

Our first destination was Iglesia de Santo Domingo, the church where St Martin de Porres and St Rose of Lima are buried - except for their skulls that is, which are ...

... and I still cant get used to these idiots driving on the wrong side of the road. I stepped onto the road this morning and looked up to see a bus coming at me. I jumped back in a hurry. A couple of weeks ago I got hit by a taxi in Cusco cos I looked in the wrong direction. It was just enough to knock me off my feet and I landed on his bonet with no damage done. Im just hanging around now. I dont know what Im going to do tomorrow morning. I might finish this blog tomorrow.

... to covertly accept our 40 Soles cash and we saunter off into the distance. Overall it was a rather uninspiring piece of drama. Although the stellar performance of ourselves carried the act through to the final curtain, the performance of the main officer character dragged the whole show down. Convincingly portrayed we could have had an intriguing tale of scandal and corruption in far off lands. The end result by contrast felt clunky, wooden and parochial. I would find it ...

... who has a wealth of knowledge about computers, as to how to upload this diary to a travel site called www.travelpod.com - this completed the afternoon seemed to have evaporated as once again it was time to head to the dining room - time flies when you are having fun! The evening's entertainer was English, Jonathan Stamp, a comedy juggler - who certainly managed to get the audience to participate in his show and had them in fits of laughter.