We have arrived in Lima without too much hassle and a fairly pleasant flight. The airport was chock a block with various touts, potential thieves and general foriegners but luckily our guide for the day Anne Marie was waiting with a large sign for us. We had a short wait whilst she found her husband whom she seemed to be telling us was a bit of drinker and had been delayed at the pub although I may well have totally misunderstood her !
Hostel Malka was basic but nice and introduced us to the major problem I think we will encounter, we speak no spanish and hardly anyone speaks any English so its blank looks all round most of time. Taxis, resteraunts and basically anything is bit of a hassle. That night I sampled the delights of Peruvian cusine at Pizza Hut and must admit I was not too impressed by comparison, the pizza was a bit cold and the ham topping slighly tasteless. We went on to spend Saturday night in a kind of Supermarket called E Wongs which was very exciting, so much food so hard to buy anything!
Yesterday we went to Miraflores which is the nice bit of Lima to try and get some tickests to Arequipa which is where we are going today I am in the airport now and this keyboard has no punctuation keys so there is no punctuation. Miraflores is very nice, clean and has armed police every 2 yards. The airline shop was closed but as we were wondering off, lost Pablo beckoned us over and explained he too sold airline tickets and his assistant who has a very weird name I have forgotten spoke perfect English and could sort us out. True to his word they were very friendly and helpful, got us a ticket, tried to sell us a complete package of things to do in Peru which this time , Australia, Cairns, Chris, we refused. After that they told us a lot of nice places to to go in Miraflores which we went off to see. We met a man from La Paz who was very friendly, spoke no English but was obvioulsy wandering if we wanted any business with Cannabees, we didnt but he was still very friendly and wished us a nice holiday. Then Paul attracted the eye of some schoolgirls who asked us a lot of questions and taped them on their tape recorder for homework. Some more horrible food, back to the hotel for a quick siesta. Got on a little bus called a connectiva who dropped us exactly where we wanted to go but not trusting the drivers judgement we took a hours detour in the opposite direction before we realised he had dropped us not 2mins walk from the place we wanted to go. The siesta turned into a full on sleep so we woke up at around 11pm. Paul wanted to go out and do stuff but I wanted to sleep. Paul won and we went to a resteraunt, 8 million resteraunt touts tried to tempt us so we went with the nicest looking. More horrible food. Paul managed to pull a very nice Peruvian lady who had been to Manchester but didnt like it. Had his photo taken with her, declined to go dancing.
On to [Arequipe] now and the deepest canyon in the world. Money & time run out. Time to go to the plane now. Bye.
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Paul chatting up Peruvian lad
Paul chatting up Peruvian ladies eh? Anyway its no wonder she didn't like Manchester it is the worst place on the planet well in Britain anyway.
Anyway you missed Chris's birthday at the Poachers Pocket and so did I (almost). I went to a Bar-B-Q with French and Russian ladies!
'If you need to pee dont talk about it just do it - might not be time later' - Forest Gump
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