The Little White Store
Trip Start
Aug 02, 2007
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Trip End
Aug 22, 2007
Day 21: We can't believe we're heading to Lima. Our trip is almost over :( Same routine...got up early, had a quick breakfast at the hotel, and had a friendly cab ride until we asked how much it was (again tried to screw us, but happily, again unsuccessfully). Anyway, the flight was fine and we had someone from our hotel waiting to pick us up. It was really nice to have someone waiting for us and to not have to worry about whether they could find the hotel. Lima is an enormous city. Our hotel is in the Miraflores neighborhood, which is a very nice sort of residential area. It's a really pretty hotel and we're happy to be there. We relaxed for a bit and then headed out to find La Tiendecita Blanca (the little white store), that was a Swiss cafe that also served traditional Peruvian food. On the traditional side, we shared some amazing tamales (totally different than Tex-Mex tamales; really tasty and flavorful 'dough' and only a small amount of stuffing, here chicken and olive and really good) and Ruth had some delicious onion soup, perfect for Lima's dreary and overcast and chilly winter weather (think Seattle). Mike had a Swiss dish, white sausage with onions and roesti (potato pancake-like) that was also very good. It was such a great lunch with tasty wine (which the poor waitress had a hell of a time opening - really pretty funny and I thought about telling Mike to help her, but I didn't want to embarass her). We wandered around Miraflores, just happy to not have anything we really had to do. We spent some time in an Internet cafe and then were drawn into a bar that was playing live music. After a few drinks there, we decided we really were too full to go to dinner as planned and would just relax in the room that night. A fun relaxing day.
