We spent the morning in the hotel in our India suite. We had breakfast in the room because it was included in the rate then we basically stayed in until it was time to move to the next room as we weren't staying in the same room both nights. When they had the other room cleaned and ready we switched over to Eqipto (Egypt of course). We really only dropped off our stuff by this point then we chose to walk around Barranco for a while.
In Barranco mainly we walked just out in the direction of the main avenue without really a destination in mind. We stopped at the Barranco Beer Company which is a micro brewery. We started there with a sampler of six beers. There was a pilsner, white wheat beer, mix of the pilsner and amber ale, amber ale, dark wheat beer and their Octoberfest. Daniela settled on El Duque which was the dark wheat beer and I had the Don Mau which was the Octoberfest. They were all reasonably good with the pilsner being the most generic. We didn't eat except for some chancha they provided.
After the brewery we continued walking down to the main square until we got to the electric trolley which actually runs on the weekends and we took our 2 soles each ride to its end stop maybe 5 minutes away. It didn't go that fast so probably it was only 10 minutes of walking or so. We got off at the other end and then walked around into a gated area because a nice resident let us in and watched the ocean for a few minutes from above as Barranco is also on the same shelf Miraflores is.
After our ocean viewing we turned back in and headed for the hotel with a stop in a new small shop off near the bridge to the old destroyed church. We took our time and it got back after dark. We only stayed in the hotel long enough to freshen up then got back out and took a taxi to the restaurant Danica which is the place we had our first date that last Friday I stayed in Lima to teach class (not counting our tour experiences as official dates). The restaurant is somewhere between San Isidro and Miraflores right off a big roundabout. It didn't take long to get there. I had a spaghetti dish with an oil based sauce that had tomatoes, sun dried tomatoes, prosciutto and parsley. Daniela had the "Oriental Salad." The food was really good. We each had a glass of Malbec red wine with the meal. After the food we shared a brownie "shifus" which was a chocolate chip cookie brownie with coffee ice cream over it. They had Baileys and chocolate sauce as well. The brownie was warm and it was very good. I had a coffee and Daniela has an herba luisa tea.
From the restaurant we walked for a few minutes in the direction of the hotel then caught a taxi back t the room where we turned in for the night.
The pictures from today are located here.
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