Arrived in Lima

We arrived in Lima, Peru at midnight last night.  Our first look at our hotel, the Gran Simon Bolivar (above) was surreal.  The hotel is a huge pile of early twentieth century beaux arts architecture with rooms to match.  We walked down endless hallways with fifteen foot ceilings feeling like characters in Last Year at Marienbad.   I kept expecting to see Eva Peron pop out of an adjoining room.  The room is sparsely furnished and the although I like sleeping on a hard mattress this was like sleeping on an ironing board.  Mick Jagger, Ernest Hemingway and Clark Gable all stayed here.

To add to the surreal feel the car (above) is parked in the lobby of the hotel which also contains a huge stained glass dome that soars two stories above.  Although the hotel does have its charms and is centrally located we are moving today.