Partially because of the late night the night before we woke
up fairly late and pretty much just stayed around the apartment rather than to
do anything very exciting. We talked and watched the movie Brave on my
computer. I tried to find Daniela Spanish subtitles to help but the track
synchronization would not stay on target which made it a little tough but I
think she got the majority of it. The difficulty she had was with the accents
which made it harder for her to understand a lot of what was being said. We both enjoyed the movie a lot but I will
say it was not the best Pixar movie ever made (though I don’t think it was the
worst either). We ordered a pizza from
the Papa John’s around the corner for lunch. It was pepperoni and mushroom and
came with Buffalo wings too. Both were
actually pretty good.
After the movie we relaxed for a little while longer before
getting ready for our dinner at La Rosa Marina
which is an upper end restaurant on the water down below Larco Mar and El
Parque del Amor. I have several pictures
of it from up above it. We were a touch
late for our reservations but fortunately the place was not full and we didn’t
really have to wait much more than a couple moments for our table to be
ready. We shared a bottle of Peruvian
red wine called a tannat. It was the Don
Manuel variety from Tacama. It had a
very strong flavor which held up well with the food we got. For a starter I had
the 5 onion soup and Daniela had the Niku maki which was a maki roll but made
with acid seared beef instead of fish. The soup was good and the sushi was too
if the rolls were maybe a bit too big for one bite eating. For dinner I had the duck breast and she had
mandarin style chicken. I liked the duck
a lot but it was a touch tough. The
chicken was tasty too. For dessert I had
the Café de Popa which was a coffee ice cream with coffee liquor and chocolate
covered coffee beans and whipped cream.
I will have to ask Daniela again what she had for dessert. It was like a
fruit flavored cheesecake but she said it is made with bacon fat instead. There was a fruit sorbet as well. I do not recall the name, it was sort of
long. We stayed at the restaurant until
they told us it was closing then we took a cab back to the apartment and called
it a night. I had to get up the next morning early to get on my flights back to
Boston.
The pictures from today can be found here.
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