Day 10

Thursday 11^th November 2010

Today has basically been a day of travelling and moving watches backwards and forwards. We started the day with breakfast in Puerto Iguazu, Argentina. We lost an hour when we re-entered Brazil and flew to Sao Paulo. We then had 4 hours in Sao Paulo airport where we did very little except stand in endless queues to check in (queuing seems to be optional) and in immigration. From there we had a 5 hour flight to Lima, Peru and gained 3 hours back. So we are now 5 hours behind you guys at home. No complaints with the flight – another free bar and a surprisingly ample meal of roast beef, gravy, boiled carrots and RICE?!!!

Our first impressions of Lima weren’t great. The place looks like a dump, and Franky declared in the taxi that he hadn’t seen anywhere he would like to stay… but our hotel had been prearranged by the tour group we will join on Saturday so we didn’t have a choice about that! The inside of the hotel is fortunately much more pleasant that the outside – and it has a 24 hour bar, bonus! So we checked in and went to sample the local brew. After 2 large bottles of Cristal (Peruvian beer – sadly, not the Champagne drunk by the stars) we were ready for our beds – exhausted after a day of sitting around doing not very much!! We’ve just had breakfast and getting ourselves ready to head out and see what Lima has to offer…. We’ll keep you posted!

No pictures I’m afraid but we did spend some time editing our footage from Iguazu Falls so check out our video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqGfxMj_Q2c