Adios LIMA..... Hello BUENOS AIRES....!!!
aaahhh - and now my 3 months in LIMA are already over.... in 8 hours I'll be on a plane to BUENOS AIRES.... and somehow I feel a little bit sad.... cause I had a really, really great time here in Peru - much nicer than I ever expected..... and it's just sad to have to say Bye and leave some good friends here behind... oh well....but I have heard sooooo many great things about Buenos Aires from loads of people already that I'm actually looking forward to my next 3 months there as well.... :)
and I can always come back to Lima at some point.... :)
anyway - apart from a few disasters and catastrophies last Monday - i.e. my flooded apartment, a burned finger, my landlord who disappeared to Cusco and was unreachable until today, and the non-functioning keyboard in my office that no-one knew how to fix for a day - my last week here in LIMA was really great and I had a number of very, very nice Goodbye-Parties.... !!
last Sunday, 9th April, were the elections for the next Peruvian president and the "LEY SECA" (the "Dry Law", "Trockenes Gesetz") verbietet Ausschank von Alkohol in oeffentlichen Lokalitaeten 48 hours before the elections..... so FRI and SAT night pretty much all bars / clubs here were closed, or at the least very, very quiet as people could not drink there.....
but FRI night we had a little social and birthday party for Jose and Monica en la casa de mi gran amigo Veto Oneto.... one of the many, many great parties and good times we've spent at his place....!!!
Muchisimas gracias otra vez, Veto, for all your hospitality, your friendship and the good times we spent here together.... :)
on Saturday I went to LA PUNTA en el Callao con Pedro..... we'd been planning to go there for quite a while but never really found time to do it..... pero now, al final, we made it eventually...!!
and it was really worth it - very nice part of Lima too..... and even though it was dark already by the time we got there we saw some of the beautiful houses and walked along the beach promenade there.... ahhh - and we had some great Peruvian food - Anticuchos y Picarones.... yeah - muy rica la comida Peruana.... de verdad... !!
on the way back we stopped at Juan's house to visit his sister for her baby-shower, but unfortunately we were a little bit late for that already.... :(
oh well - thanks for the cake and peach-cocktail anyway.... ;)
SUN was actually the best of all my Goodbye-Parties (Fiesta de la despedida de Astrid)...!! I met Veto and Carmen in Miraflores and we went to one of Veto's friends houses in my neighbourhood here for some Tea and Toast.... yeah, I know - seems very British, no....?? ;)
Really interesting guy though.... he runs the Peruvian version of the AAA, ADAC, AA or whatever you call it in your country.... the Automobile Association.... and it was really interesting to talk to him and hear about the story how he got into this business and how he set it up here..... spent a nice time with him and his family and saw parts of the elections on TV before we finally went to MARKANO....!!!
aaahh - I'm gonna miss this place...!!! and my last SUN there was so so so so good.... all my Salsa-friends from Lima were there to say Bye to me..... and for one more last dance.... :(
had a super-great time there....!! music, was great as well - as usual.... and the owner of the place also gave me a CD of the MARKANO orchesta as un recuerdo de los buenos tiempos que pasamos por alla.....!!! :)
and I just wanted to say - Gracias to Veto, Carmen, Cesar, Viviana, Salserin, Luis Cachanga, Chupete, Raul, JoseLuis, Manolo, Carlos B., Karen, Joel, Luis, Jose de Washington DC, Edison, Andrea, Anaya, Marcello, Cesar (con el pelon), La China, Angela, Carlos C., Carmen, Jackie, Fernando, Juan and everyone else whose name I don't remember right now..... Thanks so much for being there and making it such a fun night...!!!
and thanks also to Miguel and Yanet, Flor and Rolando, Walter y Ruth, Jonatan, Martin, Miguel and Daniel.... thanks for calling me.... and sorry you couldn't be there that night....
I hope I'll be back some time soon....!!! :)
then on MON another little Goodbye from LOS BOTES..... TUE con mis amigos Nestor, Omar and Melroy en el SON DE CUBA....
WED - my Goodbye-social en la casa de Veto.... where else.... ;) too bad that this meant I couldn't go to Huacho con Pamela, JoseLuis, Arturo and their friends..... would have really liked to go there too.....pero asi pasan las cosas..... and you can't always have everything.... (I already learned that...) hhmmm....
and last night - mi ultima noche en Lima - pasamos bastante bien aqui en Miraflores y despues en La Calle 8 with some old and some new friends.... ;)
sssoo - and now I should really start packing the rest of my stuff here to make sure that I'm ready to go to the airport in a few hours....
besos y abrazos from Lima.... I hope I'll get a chance to come back here soon....!!
xxx
posted by Astrid @ 3:30 PM
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