An eventful cup of coffee.

We decided to stop for coffee near the central park of Miraflores.


Feeling pretty confident about our spanish, I decided to pick up a newspaper and see if we could make it through a couple passages. To our horror and surprise, the first thing on the front page was a photo of a Taca airline crash in Honduras. After making jokes the entire time about our choice to fly Taca, (ridiculous expectations like sitting next to a Llama, or losing a kidney on the flight) we now had a more realistic reason to fear flying home in a couple days on our return flight.

The article title reads "5 died, but could have been much worse" ... After seeing us panicking a bit over this, a british guy sitting nearby asked us: "would you gents care for a translation?" and then proceeded to translate the entire article for us like a forceful radio broadcast. He was a bit ridiculous, and seemed a little irritated with visitors who come to peru for 9 days and do our "tourist" itinerary. (he had been there for 8 years) anyway, we were thankful for the translation, and luckily both flew home safe.