Lima Peru

We flew to Peru on JetBlue and seated next to us was Eva Ward who happens to be Gordon Hayward’s housekeeper. (For those who don’t follow sports, Gordon Hayward is a star player for the Boston Celtics) (or as I once heard Charlotte pronounce it, the Boston Keltics)

Our first morning in Lima we found this real tiny cafe a block away. Two booths. It’s a Venezuelan Cafe and an arepa is a popular sandwich in Venezuela. The food was great and we later met the owner, Michael, who one lived in Miami and spent a lot of time in Spain.

When we got to our great apartment, we found it fully stocked. This is the most popular drink in Lima, Inca Cola. Tastes somewhere in the area of a banana creame soda.

Walking a couple blocks south we came across this church. We call it Vulture Church. From the side we took a picture of the roof – coming up next…

We first came across these trees in Bhutan. The hanging white flowers are very fragrant. Jasmine like. It is called Angel’s Trumpet or Datura. If you see one, smell it.

Huge sculpture of an ant.

For our first meal in Lima what do you think we cooked up? Lima beans, of course!

Walking to the Barranco Brewery, there was this strange alley with a mushroom shaped tree.

Inside the Barranco Brewery a few blocks away. The brewery is in the background. We later came back and had a pizza and a great plate of local potato fries.

An abandoned building a few blocks away. Caught my eye because it has the initials ER at the top center. I grew up in Elk River.

From inside the elevator going up to our 4th floor apartment. We call it Schindler’s Lift.

One block to our west is the Pacific Ocean. Sometimes great sunsets can be captured here.

Caught part of a parade on the way back from one of our morning jogs.

In a city with tons of wall murals and great parks, this guy was a bit unusual.

This train car is actually parked on one of the main streets in Barranco and it has been turned into a vegetarian restaurant.

I don’t know what this is called, but we’ve been watching it grow for weeks. When we get back from the Andes I’ll take another picture and we can all see how much its grown.

I think they call this Chocolate Peruviano. Really good hot chocolate and then a healthy dose of pisco is added, making it quite special.

So many good sunset pictures. We often watch the time and then head for the cliff just before sunset. The event draws quite a crowd.

This is part of the little park between our apartment and the ocean.

You know those plywood walls that block off sidewalk from construction projects? Well in Barranco they are all works of art. Embedded in one of these walls is this mirror.

This is the answer to that question. Does Lima have super highways?

Here is Charlotte at Kennedy Park in Miraflores. Can you read her t-shirt? We got it from a cool native-indigenous-Eco-company. It says: “Birthplace: Earth, Race = Human, Politics = Freedom, Religion = Love”

One of the many beautiful flower beds that we jog by every day.

This is an interesting arrangement of ceiling lighting above the vegetarian restaurant called “Twins” right outside the natural grocery store called Las Vacas. Just a block from our apartment.

It took a while but we finally did find a way to get down the cliff and into the water. Charlotte reported that it was indeed cold.

Here is a series of three pictures of designs in a part of the park way on the other end of the Malecon. We don’t get that far up the trail that often. These are fashioned somewhat along the pattern of the Nazca Lines which are several hours south of Lima.