Miraflores

Back to Lima for a couple of days (www.miraflorescolonhotel.com) where Will has to wait for a phone call from work and he also wants to go to see some catcombs at the Monasterio de San Francisco. The catacombs are said to be filled with the bones of 70,000 and archaeologists have opened many of the burial sites up and laid the bones back in a very orderly fashion.

We also check out Barranco and have possibly the worst lunch of the trip where Ruby is so beside herself with hunger (made worse when her food doesn’t arrive for over an hour and then, when it does, it’s inedible) that she’s almost in tears. I end up taking her outside and feeding her a chocolate doughnut!

It’s a shame that we didn’t stumble across the bajada earlier (a very pretty Bougainvillea-filled steep path leading down to the beach and filled on both sides by lovely looking restaurants), a particularly pleasant part of town where we wander under the Puente de los Suspiros (Bridge of Sighs) to the coast and spot an amazing old church built of mud and wood that had definitely seen better days but was still standing.