Lima, Peru - part III

as soon as i get off the lima bus about 5 taxi drivers offer me taxi ride.. i choose one of them and we head to Miraflores. the first thing he does once i sit in the car is lock all the 4 doors... creepy place this lima. finding a hotel was a trick on its own of course.. everything is full.. one hotel had gone out of business and was closed.. i was out of ideas already and then the taxi driver took me to one.. it was close to the beach in Miraflores and was quite cheap as well. dropped my things off and headed over to Maria's place. we went out and had some chinese food and then some drinks. was nice to see again.. after a month... so much to say so much to talk about... too bad we were both very tired.... got back to the hotel around 1:30am

next morning, tuesday 17th of July, i was woken up at 8am by heavy construction work right outside my window.. grrr.. so much of sleeping in... packed my bags, showered and checked out. met with one estonian guy who has lived here for 4+ years already. we spoke for almost 5 hours.. had lunch and sat in 2 cafes... very interesting person... i got answers to my gazillion questions about life in peru and economy over here and many many other things.. got to hear of how he lives here and why :) amazing what people do and how they live. and amazing to hear about life in lima and the people. absolutely astonishing.

after meeting with him i still had 4 hours to kill.. walked around and took some pictures.. met with Maria.. picked up my bag from hotel.. walked around some more and headed to the airport 4 hours before my flight. traffic is mad here and the rush our is unimaginable... took us 1h to get from Miraflores to the airport.. and i was very close of getting an exhaust poisoning... yuk. at the airport there was about 1h line at the check-in and another 30 minute line at the security check... then our flight was overbooked and was 1h late.. once at the plane we had to wait on the runway another 40 minutes... it was ridiculous.. but then we finally took off.

plane ride to Atlanta was fine.. not very bumpy and i even managed to sleep for 2 hours on the plane... in atlanta i had 8h layover.. some more sleep and then the long flight to Amsterdam... i will never get used to those ones... somehow i actually managed to sleep on that flight as well for about 3 hours... so i missed the movie completely :( ... in Amsterdam i only had 2 hours. i had to handle my luggage and do another check-in so i used my 2 hours up in a snap. flight to tallinn seemed to last the longest like always. and finally i was here :D back to the real world!