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Lima (13 August 2004)

The shower was cold, freezingly so and I had to move rooms because this one was booked and I wanted to pay the 40 soles instead of the 50 soles for this one, as I did not need a TV. I decided to look for another place because 40 soles for a room without hot shower is a big rip off. I walked for two hours in circles around my hotel and of course when you need one you do not find anything.

The nearest mentioned in my guidebook was the Witches House which appeared to be a dump full with Israelis. Litterally full with Israelis. Unbelievable. The hot water ws tempting and so were the 38 soles for a private room, but hearing all the guitars and seeing all the smoke and booze they were consuming with the Hebrew language to top it off I decided I could not stand that at all and went back to my hotel to change to the third floor. It had more hot water although it was not working really for the next three days. Nice! Not!

Hernan was supposed to pick me up around lunch. He cancelled that after I called him where he was because he had some work to finish which I understood of course. He would see me later for dinner and pick me up around 6 pm. The rest of the afternoon I spent in Miraflores thanks to the extremely efficient photo shop who made me come back five times only to tell me that the photos were still not ready. I can understand that it goes wrong and that sometimes a promise of two hours (I also wanted to have them on CD) can not be made, but even in a third world country like this you can not make a customer come back 5 times, wasting 5 hours of his time. So I demanded to speak to the manager and said this was the worst treatment I have ever had in a photo shop, which was true. I asked an outrageous discount in order to get the one I wanted and left the place.



Hernan came to my hotel, on time for a change but had more bad news. He had to leave that night by helicopter to Puno and Arequipa to take pictures for a new website he was going to design for a hotel chain and he had to have a proposal in a few days. He had heard it that afternoon and also felt sorry that it screwed up our whole weekend.

Back in Miraflores I went to the Pizza Hut because I wanted a change from the Peruvian food which has not excited me so much yet. Some internet hopping took hours as all systems either crashed or did not have cd roms to upload my new photos. When I found one I found out that the scanned photos where the size of 4 MB each, making them VERY difficult to upload. Pfff, what a day it had been. Then I found out that it was Friday 13th.

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