Mildred and the land of strange dogs...

Afternoon all!

Firstly, apologies for any random puntuation in this post...the Peruvian keyboard is a little different to ours¿`Ñ

Our journey over was relatively uneventful, apart from being adopted in transit by a rather mad old Peruvian lady with stripy rainbow coloured socks - we named her Mildred as it seemed to suit her. She latched onto us as we were the only other people she could find heading for the Madrid-Lima flight and she wasn´t sure where she was going...quite why she thought we knew I'm not too sure but she followed us nonetheless, all the while jabbering at us in loud fast flowing Spanish despite being told by an air hostess that we had no idea what she was saying-Bradders, she's obviously been to your school of speaking to foreigners!

We arrived in Lima and were met by a chap called Fermin who was to take us to our hotel....what's one of the first things we saw? A Manpower office...something for you v- sorts to bear in mind should you fancy a change of scenery!!

The hotel we're in is absolutely beautiful-amazing works of art everywhere and stunning views across the pacific...not strictly what you could call backpacking, and sadly I don't think our budget will allow us to stay in places like that all the way around, but it's a nice start after 15 odd hours of travelling!

Day one in Lima took us to the centre which is full of beautiful old buildings such as the presidential palace and the San Francisco church and monestary. The walk between the two is where we saw the dog wearing a coat, hat and glasses. Actual glasses too, not even sun glasses...most bizarre.

We spent the day strolling around before heading back to the district called Miraflores and from there we walked along the coast back to Barranco where we're staying. All in all a lovely start to the trip! The Peruvians are all very frindly, even if they do drive like people possessed....makes Parisian driving look like something Miss Daisy might be involved in!

And that's about all I have time for right now - Sharm will be here with the next installment soon

Love to all,
Magoo xx