Hour of return: Around 10h40
Distance:4.20Km
Type: Walk
I´m still in Lima. How can I leave this place anyway? Where would I even go? I went out, dressed with my blue shorts, a green Trupal polyester polo with a little peruvian flag embroided on it, my old worn out Targus Nylon Backpack, in which I placed my brown North Face cap. As accessories I had my Rayban sunglasses on my nose, the keys hooked to the back pack with a climbing hook and my Nike yellow Nylon wallet.
At the corner of Alcanfores with 28 de Julio workers are digging a hole. Sewer problems maybe? Who knows?
Walked to 28 de Julio to take this picture. This where there used to be a restaurant called "Design You own Salad." (It wasn´t veggie though. They had chicken and stuff.) The place is vacant and they placed this gift wraps on the windows. I think it´s going to be a restaurant again but it´s not sure.
I reached Larco. A lot of people as usual. They are also digging a whole at that corner. I wonder.
I kept walking on San Martin untill I arrived to the bajada balta. They are working in el Club Terrazas.
Just in front they also demolished a house with that machine.
As often, there where kids playing football in the field. That´s cool.
As usual, they are playing tennis in the Club Terrazas. You know how I feel about tennis, squash... Tennis elbow, unnesesary assymetric arm and body activity.
And there was mist. Kept walking along the club terrazas.
Another hole Juan Fanning´s corner. I kept walking. At that little park above the stairs. A gardener was watering the grass with sprinklers and hoses. They are also some big works at the Club Terrazas there. I saw something at the stairs that displeased me. Went under the bridge. I think people where smoking weed. Arrived at the Beso Frances. Gardeners are working on that little park in front of the Intihuatana. There used to be flowers there. They plowed it. We couldn´t see the see. Just the shore from above. Could hardly see the Rosa Nautica.
I crossed the bridge. There where these gardners working on the cypress pots along the bridge. Apperently they where putting compost or fertilizer. I talked with a man on the bridge.
Usually I don´t cross the bridge and stick to sector 9 but I had business to do on the other shore. Another gardner at work in "Parque del Amor".
I went through a street which name I ignore. Near calle Francia. Maybe it´s calle Francia. It´s near the Good Hope clinic. Workers working on a building.
There was an ambulance with nurses at the Good Hope emergencies.
I kept walking along the Bajada Balta untill I got to the wooden bridge. In front, there is this far from vegan restaurant called Alfresco. They are "sailing away" not so far, to their "new port" as you can see.
Kept walking another construction site next to the Británico with this big truck.
Passed the Británico and took this pic of somesort of electrical station. I wonder why it´s so tagged and full of stickers. There´s the eye that we see all around from San Isidro, to Miraflores and Barranco.
Kept walking. Bembos was closed, gladly. Workers where working there.
On diagonal, workers where unloading these pilones from a truck.
I turned at Calle Berlin. I think this Irish Pub is new. It´s called Molly´s. Holly Molly´s lips!
Further in Calle Berlin, workers in flashy orange jackets where moving empty glass bottles, beer, as far as I saw with hand trucks. That place seemed to be a bodega.
Another future construction site on calle Berlin?
Turned at Rocaverren. Working on that building.
Two trucks there. A Donofrio truck there and another one with some workers unloading or loading. I would rather say it was a delivery.
I arrived at my destination. This vegan-organic-local restaurant bakery pastry shop. Went in. A dude welcomed me. He offered me the menu. Instead I looked at the vitrine of the bakery. I was attracted by a veggetable quiche. Looked around to see what I would take to eat today. They also sell integral bread. So I asked for 2 slices of quische..quiche? quishe?. They packed it as I was sitting on a wooden stool looking the people around and the place. There was music. I wanted something sweet for desert and for breakfast so I added 2 cookies and a slice of fruit pie. They packed it in little craft boxes. I went to pay. Another guy took my Visa at the counter. Placed the food in my backpack and left.
The thing is that this place serves "local food" but I know these ingredients come in trucks from elsewhere. There aren´t really local local ingredients in Lima. They say "local" because on the contrary of other places, they probably try to bring the food from the closest fields, gardens.... Well you know...Sorry to be such a sowerpuss. It was tasty though. :)
Where the Donofrio truck there was this other truck. A truck from the Miraflores municipality. The famous program "basura que no es basura". It´s a garbage segregation program. They pick the different garbage bags at you building. Trucks. Trucks. Always trucks. Trucks to suply us. Trucks to take the garbage out. It´s the fatality of our lives here.
I went through the Parque Kennedy. There was another work accross Diagonal.
In the park they are exposing pictures. I think they are pictures of the football world cup in which Peru participated along time ago. Not of great interrest. It´s called mundalistas. All that because Perú qualified to the world cup. Who cares?
Walked through Larco and got into that little dead end street in front of Tarata. Another construction site behind the Metro Supermarket. And guess what? Trucks!
Work on the Pierre Cardin store. Renovation maybe. They usually sell good enough taste shirts there. The design and style is correct. Imported clothes though. Will they reopen?
There´s this big whole in front of the centro cultural Ricardo Palma. They alway stick publicity in the walls.
- "El despertar de los muertos vivientes". Living deads?...I don´t know what to say about this. :o
- A Claro Promotion to speed up your Internet.
- Another add of CIRSA I think. A local casino. Football bets probably. Again. Who cares?
At the San Martin/Larco they are building a building. There used to be an ugly house and a nice one there. They demolished both a while ago.
A street broomer from the municipality. There´s a lot to broom.
I took this picture in front of my building. We can see the construction site which is making a lot of noise around here. They where already at work.
Got back to my apartment.
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