October 28-30: Lima, Peru

The days of 28 and 29 were spent working on the training seminar with the local participants. I took to eating at the ASwiss restauarant just down the road frm the hotel as it was a good place to sit  and watch the world whilst sipping a pisco sour and eating good fod.
The traffic in Lima is pretty awful and ther are lots of minibusees of varying states of epair - mostly battered and  rather dodgy in appearance- but ther is also a great metro bus service.
On the expresssway through town the centre two lanes are dediciated to special buses which are like a wheeled version of an underground train:

The video shows the bus pulling away from one of the stations which are located in the centre of the road and linked to the  street by lifts stairs and ramps etc. All very neat and looks good when the three lanes each way are grd locked in the rush hours. The buses just keep running.

Saturday morning I went for a walk to the Inca markets  but was not moved to buy anything after all.  The

weather was cool and cloudy but by 1130 a sea fog was drifting in  and by 1230 it was cool and damp - and then suddenly the sun appeared at  1330 to give a sunny aternoon.

I had moved hotels to the San Antonio as the other place was full and they would not let me stay on. The new place was where we had run a course in 2008 so I knew the area OK but we had stayed in the sister hotel across the road whilst using the seminar room here. Turns out all the rooms are suites and quite impressive with a mega spa bath dominating the living area.....

The end of the stay drew close aqnd after another lunch at the "pizza & pub alley"  we set off for the sirport and ours eparate flights home. Mine was a LAN flight to Madrid and then Iberia to Vienna LAN was OK but  an older B767  and a bit tired - the crew too. Iberia provided an Airbus and the crew were in top form. Saturday evening and the end to anothe mission came as we landed on time in Vienna.