Grand Hotel Miraflores Lima

... lovely part of an otherwise grim but historic city. I think our hostel is a perfect example of the  rest of Miraflores, it has a grand  history and the potential to be beautiful but for some reason or another they have neglected to keep it ...

... Eve was right as rain and Adam was well on the way to being healthy again. So, in Peru we are staying in Miraflores, a suburb of Lima that our cabbie described as one of the only safe neighbourhoods in Lima... he insisted that if we got out of the cab ...

... , in its day, a spectacular and impressive place, but the truth is that that day seems very much in the past. While our Miraflores hotel was in the more upmarket and lively area, downtown Lima is a fairly drab affair, suffering more than its fair share of ...

... my fear was alleviated when we drove to the nicer part of the city. We were dropped off in front of our hostel. The MiraFlores house! So cute and quaint! Though it was guarded by security cameras and a barb wired fence, we felt like we had finally reached ...

... to a clifftop restaurant overlooking the Pacific called Mango's that was in the Larco Mar shopping center in the upmarket neighborhood of Miraflores.  As John Simpson writes in My World, My Masters: "The city of Lima, ugly, flat, featureless and ...