the things we do for mati...

Barranco

Tuesday, June 19th, after classes, we headed into Lima for the afternoon because one of Mathilde's friends from college was visiting Lima. We had planned to meet up with some AIESEC Pacifico kids, but plans got rearranged and Lemmy, Ben, Alena, and I ended up roaming around Miraflores by ourselves while Mathilde hung out with her friend and his family. We walked around, bought a few trinkets, and stopped for lunch. We also went into every bookstore that we passed. Without fail. Lemmy has a special fondness for bookstores, and we usually indulge him. Afterward, we looked for an acceptable ice-cream shop for about four hours.  At least that's what it felt like. Every place we came to was either too American, too expensive, too weird with their ice-cream statues (that actually happened) or too sketch. But it was fine, we just wanted to look around.

Miraflores

We finally decided that we'd seen enough of Miraflores on our ice-cream search and took a taxi to Barranco. Talk about a cool place. Barranco is on the beach, and it has a mixture of old and new architecture that all combine to create a really attractive atmosphere. I only got to see about an hour of it, but I can't wait to go back. From the restaurant at which we met up with Mathilde, we took a taxi, a colectivo, and a combo in order to pick our stuff up from our boss' house and get ourselves home. All in all, it was a very good day.