It wasn’t a bad prawn or too much of the local ale last night but when I woke up this morning I felt distinctly off colour. Maybe the fact that I started my day by watching BBC News at One on Dodgyvision had something to do with it. Politicians spouting off about how much they think Donald Trump is a good guy after all. Yuk! Perhaps I should go looking for toads today instead of Paddington.
I found a fine bar last night and fell to talking to a charming American – an ex Marine and big with it as well. He blamed the Brits and the Brexit vote for getting Trump elected and seemed to blame us for all sorts of other current ills in the States. I didn’t follow most of his arguments but as he bought me a drink, I smiled indulgently. On the way to this hostelry, I passed the amphitheatre again and, blow me, the oldies were still at it 3.5hrs after they had started!
And neither food nor alcohol in sight.
Although Lima is on the sea, I wouldn’t say it’s a beach resort largely because a) the beach is stony
and b) because there are a helluva lot of steps to walk down to get there.
310 to be precise. I counted!
Surfing, though, is clearly the thing here and there are lots of opportunities to do so
although, when there are few big waves as today, there’s a lot of hanging around and waiting. At least one guy though was doing something positive –
mending beach umbrellas!
I’m not sure that the Peruvian newspaper industry is doing well as most of the newsstands put copies of the more popular papers out for anyone to read, free of charge.
Imagine if popular medical rags headlining prostate and impotence problems were plastered over the windows of WH Smith!
Book publishers here must be clairvoyants on the side as some manuals are published even before the events in them have happened.
The focal point in the Miraflores district is the park, part of which is being rebuilt behind screens. It’s good to know that the workers behind this structure are safe.
Being on the outside, should I be worried?
Close by, finishing touches are being added to the garden by an army of workers.
Maybe we should hire these guys to do the annual village clean up.
Lima, or certainly the part I have seen so far, is obviously more 21st century than Guayaquil and more affluent. I am staying in the city’s equivalent to Hatton Garden
where there are also a number of casinos
although some are obviously doing better than others.
And whilst we are on the subject of money, exchanging it is easy. There are official money changers on the streets all carrying great wads of cash!
Anyway, enough of all this commercialism. Tomorrow I’m taking a look at the more cultural side of this huge city.
Philes
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