We´ve been seeing the sights of Lima the last few days.
Yesterday and today we have been in the Miraflores District, which is really popular with tourists as it´s right on the Pacific Coast, we have caught the local bus as it´s about 5p each to travel 30mins.
During that time you are entertained by all kinds of locals, selling stuff, preaching stuff and just generally making an @rse of themselves, you get a bit tired of listening to them to be honest and we haven´t got a clue what they´re talking about.
Although the weather has picked up a bit it´s still nowhere near the kind of sun/temps we could be getting back home!
It´s really hazy here (always is apparently) but we are in t-shirts so it´s not that cold.
We fly to Cusco tomorrow which seems to be the pest place in Peru according to the locals, the only thing that I´m not looking forward to though is the local delicacy there.. Guinea Pig!!
I always knew that they ate it here but up until now I have been lucky and not seen any, after just speaking with one of the locals, Cusco is where the Guinea Pigs are eaten!
I will be gutted to see it, I used to have 2 as pets (Shaggy and Scooby) and to think of them cooked :-(
They are the cutest little things ever, I´m dreading it.
Last night we went to a really good Italian and had some lovely pasta, Matt is really into the Pisco Sour, which is the Peruvian Cocktail.
Our hotel in Lima Centre is really noisy, they are OBSESSED here with honking their car horns and it really is starting to hack me off because they just honk it for nothing.
This morning at about 3am (I mean how busy can the roads be at that time) there must´ve been about 4-5 cars all just honking their horns for an eternity.
God only knows what the problem was, and it is like that ALL day EVERY day, 100 times worse than NYC.
Oh for a bit of peace and quiet and a night of unbroken sleep!!
We went to the Cinema yesterday and watched an American film (Bruce Willis & Hale Berry) it wasn´t very good but it was good to hear so much English being spoken!
They had Snickers and Milky Ways for sale too, Peruvian chocolate is HORRIBLE, you cant get Cadbury´s and Galaxy over here.
It´s all those little poxy wafers with cheap horrible melted chocolate on (the sort of thing you would get at your grandparents house when you was a kid)
We have found a Dunkin Donuts in Lima though and have been for breakfast the last couple of days!
Veggie food is not as popular here in Peru as Ecuador.
We have got our fingers crossed for Cusco tomorrow as the place that you can get a Sunday Roast apparently also does a good curry!!
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13 years ago
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We went to Gower by Swansea for the weekend and took the telly as it was forcast torrential rain. The weather was brilliant tho and we missed most of Glasto on the telly - oh well.
Almoste wrote-off the Camper on the way back by means of cattle colision. Stoopid bastard was scratching his head on a roadsign with his arse in the middle of the road. They really ought to round up all these stray animals in these national parks you know, its dangerous.
Anyway - Gowers got some ace long, clean beaches, and us and Mick had a nice relaxing time.
Adios Amigos.
19 Days 'till Benicassim - roll on 2008!
Hola Amigos!
Ben why can´t you just scratch your head with your hand like everybody else does!!
Wish we were coming to Benicassim with you, could do with some sun and some banging choones!!
Deffo one for 2008!!
Ey Up D´Bully. Gower sounds fine, (the place mind not the cricketer!). Glad you had some good weather unlike the Glasto hippies. We´re in Cusco now, up in the mountains. Can´t walk anywhere without almost collapsing for lack of oxygen. Still it beats working.
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